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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • Short term rehab effectively helps more women than men, even though they may have suffered more traumatic situations than men did.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Family intervention has been found to be upwards of ninety percent successful and professionally conducted interventions have a success rate of near 98 percent.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Oxycodone stays in the system 1-10 days.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • 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.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Nearly 2/3 of those found in addiction recovery centers report sexual or physical abuse as children.
  • In 2007, 33 counties in California reported the seizure of clandestine labs, compared with 21 counties reporting seizing labs in 2006.

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