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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Those who complete prison-based treatment and continue with treatment in the community have the best outcomes.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • 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.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Some common names for anabolic steroids are Gear, Juice, Roids, and Stackers.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • Ativan is faster acting and more addictive than other Benzodiazepines.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • 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.
  • Meth can quickly be made with battery acid, antifreeze and drain cleaner.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.

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