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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Coke Bugs or Snow Bugs are an illusion of bugs crawling underneath one's skin and often experienced by Crack Cocaine users.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine in their lifetime.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.

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