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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • 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.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • In 2007, 33 counties in California reported the seizure of clandestine labs, compared with 21 counties reporting seizing labs in 2006.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Penalties for possession, delivery and manufacturing of Ecstasy can include jail sentences of four years to life, and fines from $250,000 to $4 million, depending on the amount of the drug you have in your possession.
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • 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
  • There are more than 200 identified synthetic drug compounds and more than 90 different synthetic drug marijuana compounds.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • Over 80% of individuals have confidence that prescription drug abuse will only continue to grow.

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