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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • 1.1 million people each year use hallucinogens for the first time.
  • 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
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • The duration of cocaine's effects depends on the route of administration.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • There are many types of drug and alcohol rehab available throughout the world.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Young adults from 18-25 are 50% more than any other age group.
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.

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