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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • There are many types of drug and alcohol rehab available throughout the world.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.
  • Ironically, young teens in small towns are more likely to use crystal meth than teens raised in the city.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • 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.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.

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