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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Men and women who suddenly stop drinking can have severe withdrawal symptoms.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • 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illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Inhalants include volatile solvents, gases and nitrates.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.

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