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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • In its purest form, heroin is a fine white powder
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • Smoking tobacco can cause a miscarriage or a premature birth.
  • 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.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • Over 52% of teens who use bath salts also combine them with other drugs.

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