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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • At least half of the suspects arrested for murder and assault were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  • Ambien is a sedative-hypnotic known to cause hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and death.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • 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.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • 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.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Smokers who continuously smoke will always have nicotine in their system.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.

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