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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • In 2014, over 354,000 U.S. citizens were daily users of Crack.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • In 2011, over 65 million doses of Krokodil were seized within just three months.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.

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