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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Overdose deaths linked to Benzodiazepines, like Ativan, have seen a 4.3-fold increase from 2002 to 2015.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 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.
  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • 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.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.

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