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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Hallucinogens do not always produce hallucinations.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Crack comes in solid blocks or crystals varying in color from yellow to pale rose or white.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • There is holistic rehab, or natural, as opposed to traditional programs which may use drugs to treat addiction.

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