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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • 10 to 22% of automobile accidents involve drivers who are using drugs.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Meth can quickly be made with battery acid, antifreeze and drain cleaner.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.

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