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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • More than9 in 10people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Meth creates an immediate high that quickly fades. As a result, users often take it repeatedly, making it extremely addictive.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.

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