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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Rates of K2 Spice use have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • Every day, we have over 8,100 NEW drug users in America. That's 3.1 million new users every year.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • There are programs for alcohol addiction.
  • Cigarettes can kill you and they are the leading preventable cause of death.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • Invisible drugs include coffee, tea, soft drinks, tobacco, beer and wine.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • 70% to 80% of the world's cocaine comes from Columbia.
  • In 2007, 33 counties in California reported the seizure of clandestine labs, compared with 21 counties reporting seizing labs in 2006.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.

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