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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Crystal meth is short for crystal methamphetamine.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Short term rehab effectively helps more women than men, even though they may have suffered more traumatic situations than men did.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.

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