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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Victims of predatory drugs often do not realize taking the drug or remember the sexual assault taking place.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
  • Medial drugs include prescription medication, cold and allergy meds, pain relievers and antibiotics.
  • 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.
  • Ecstasy is one of the most popular drugs among youth today.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • Over 80% of individuals have confidence that prescription drug abuse will only continue to grow.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.

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