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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • High dosages of ketamine can lead to the feeling of an out of body experience or even death.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • 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.
  • The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Two-thirds of the ER visits related to Ambien were by females.

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