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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to dehydrate.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • Subutex use has increased by over 66% within just two years.
  • 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.
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.

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