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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Ritalin and related 'hyperactivity' type drugs can be found almost anywhere.
  • Gases can be medical products or household items or commercial products.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • 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.
  • Nitrates are also inhalants that come in the form of leather cleaners and room deodorizers.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • 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.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • More than9 in 10people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.

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