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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Victims of predatory drugs often do not realize taking the drug or remember the sexual assault taking place.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • There are innocent people behind bars because of the drug conspiracy laws.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • 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.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.

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