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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • The duration of cocaine's effects depends on the route of administration.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.

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