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Puerto-rico Treatment Centers

in Puerto-rico

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Drug Facts

  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
  • 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Out of every 100 people who try, only between 5 and 10 will actually be able to stop smoking on their own.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.

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