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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 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
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • In 1993, inhalation (42%) was the most frequently used route of administration among primary Methamphetamine admissions.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • The New Hampshire Department of Corrections reports 85 percent of inmates arrive at the state prison with a history of substance abuse.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • 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.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Smokers who continuously smoke will always have nicotine in their system.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.

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