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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • In addition, users may have cracked teeth due to extreme jaw-clenching during a Crystral Meth high.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Every day, we have over 8,100 NEW drug users in America. That's 3.1 million new users every year.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • 1.1 million people each year use hallucinogens for the first time.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.

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