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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • In 2011, over 65 million doses of Krokodil were seized within just three months.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • 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.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death

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