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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Drug addiction and abuse can be linked to at least of all major crimes committed in the United States.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • 80% of methadone-related deaths were deemed accidental, even though most cases involved other drugs.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • About 696,000 cases of student assault, are committed by student's who have been drinking.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • 2.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs for the first time, compared to 2.1 million who used marijuana for the first time.
  • Over 53 Million Oxycodone prescriptions are filled each year.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Only 9% of people actually get help for substance use and addiction.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Cocaine is sometimes taken with other drugs, including tranquilizers, amphetamines,2 marijuana and heroin.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.

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