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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Anti-Depressants are often combined with Alcohol, which increases the risk of poisoning and overdose.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Alprazolam is held accountable for about 125,000 emergency-room visits each year.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • More than 16.3 million adults are impacted by Alcoholism in the U.S. today.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • 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

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