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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • 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 young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Drug addiction and abuse can be linked to at least of all major crimes committed in the United States.
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.
  • Drug addiction is a serious problem that can be treated and managed throughout its course.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • There are innocent people behind bars because of the drug conspiracy laws.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for sedatives.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.

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