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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Adverse effects from Ambien rose nearly 220 percent from 2005 to 2010.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • In 2011, over 65 million doses of Krokodil were seized within just three months.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Interventions can facilitate the development of healthy interpersonal relationships and improve the participant's ability to interact with family, peers, and others in the community.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • 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
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.

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