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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • Over 52% of teens who use bath salts also combine them with other drugs.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • The penalties for drug offenses vary from state to state.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.

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