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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Ativan is one of the strongest Benzodiazepines on the market.
  • 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.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant that has been utilized and abused for ages.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.

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