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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • The high potency of fentanyl greatly increases risk of overdose.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Ecstasy increases levels of several chemicals in the brain, including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. It alters your mood and makes you feel closer and more connected to others.
  • In Russia, Krokodil is estimated to kill 30,000 people each year.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • More than 9 in 10 people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.

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