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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Ecstasy is emotionally damaging and users often suffer depression, confusion, severe anxiety, paranoia, psychotic behavior and other psychological problems.
  • 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.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Meth can quickly be made with battery acid, antifreeze and drain cleaner.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • Coca wine's (wine brewed with cocaine) most prominent brand, Vin Mariani, received endorsement for its beneficial effects from celebrities, scientists, physicians and even Pope Leo XIII.
  • Approximately 35,000,000 Americans a year have been admitted into the hospital due abusing medications like Darvocet.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.

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