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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • In Alabama during the year 2006 a total of 20,340 people were admitted to Drug rehab or Alcohol rehab programs.
  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • 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.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to dehydrate.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Crystal meth is short for crystal methamphetamine.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.

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