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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Pure Cocaine is extracted from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • Ritalin and related 'hyperactivity' type drugs can be found almost anywhere.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • 15.2% of 8th graders report they have used Marijuana.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.

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