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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Inhalants include volatile solvents, gases and nitrates.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Oxycodone comes in a number of forms including capsules, tablets, liquid and suppositories. It also comes in a variety of strengths.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.

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