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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • In 2007, 33 counties in California reported the seizure of clandestine labs, compared with 21 counties reporting seizing labs in 2006.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • Alcohol is the most likely substance for someone to become addicted to in America.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.

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