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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Cocaine stays in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Marijuana is actually dangerous, impacting the mind by causing memory loss and reducing ability.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Prescription drug spending increased 9.0% to $324.6 billion in 2015, slower than the 12.4% growth in 2014.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.

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