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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • Anti-Depressants are often combined with Alcohol, which increases the risk of poisoning and overdose.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous stimulants of natural origin.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Another man on 'a mission from God' was stopped by police driving near an industrial park in Texas.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • There is holistic rehab, or natural, as opposed to traditional programs which may use drugs to treat addiction.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.

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