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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • 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.
  • Mixing Ambien with alcohol can cause respiratory distress, coma and death.
  • 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.
  • Adderall is linked to cases of sudden death due to heart complications.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • 1.1 million people each year use hallucinogens for the first time.
  • Young adults from 18-25 are 50% more than any other age group.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Authority obtains over 10,500 accounts of clonazepam abuse annually.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives

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