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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 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
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Over 30 Million people have admitted to abusing a cannabis-based product within the last year.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).

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