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Puerto-rico Treatment Centers

in Puerto-rico

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Drug Facts

  • Over 53 Million Opiate-based prescriptions are filled each year.
  • 1.3% of high school seniors have tired bath salts.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • The penalties for drug offenses vary from state to state.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Meth can quickly be made with battery acid, antifreeze and drain cleaner.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.

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