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Puerto-rico Treatment Centers

in Puerto-rico

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Drug Facts

  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.
  • Nitrous oxide is actually found in whipped cream dispensers as well as octane boosters for cars.
  • Despite 20 years of scientific evidence showing that drug treatment programs do work, the feds fail to offer enough of them to prisoners.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.

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