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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • Over 500,000 individuals have abused Ambien.
  • 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.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • Between 2000 and 2006 the average number of alcohol related motor vehicle crashes in Utah resulting in death was approximately 59, resulting in an average of nearly 67 fatalities per year.

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