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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • 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.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • At least half of the suspects arrested for murder and assault were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Half of all Ambien related ER visits involved other drug interaction.

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