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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • 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.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • 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.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Over 600,000 people has been reported to have used ecstasy within the last month.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.

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