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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • 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
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Crack cocaine is one of the most powerful illegal drugs when it comes to producing psychological dependence.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.

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