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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Hallucinogens do not always produce hallucinations.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Alcohol is the most likely substance for someone to become addicted to in America.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • There are many types of drug and alcohol rehab available throughout the world.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Interventions can facilitate the development of healthy interpersonal relationships and improve the participant's ability to interact with family, peers, and others in the community.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.

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