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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • 37% of individuals claim that the United States is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.

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