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Puerto-rico Treatment Centers

in Puerto-rico

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Drug Facts

  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • GHB is a popular drug at teen parties and "raves".
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • In 2011, over 800,000 Americans reported having an addiction to cocaine.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • In 2013, more high school seniors regularly used marijuana than cigarettes as 22.7% smoked pot in the last month, compared to 16.3% who smoked cigarettes.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine in their lifetime.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.

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