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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Taking Steroids raises the risk of aggression and irritability to over 56 percent.
  • 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.
  • There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine in their lifetime.
  • About 50% of high school seniors do not think it's harmful to try crack or cocaine once or twice and 40% believe it's not harmful to use heroin once or twice.
  • Methamphetamine can cause cardiac damage, elevates heart rate and blood pressure, and can cause a variety of cardiovascular problems, including rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, and increased blood pressure.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.

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