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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Ketamine hydrochloride, or 'K,' is a powerful anesthetic designed for use during operations and medical procedures.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Alcohol Abuse is the 3rd leading cause of preventable deaths in the U.S with over 88,000 cases of Alcohol related deaths.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.

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