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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Half of all Ambien related ER visits involved other drug interaction.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.

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