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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Studies in 2013 show that over 1.7 million Americans reported using tranquilizers like Ativan for non-medical reasons.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • 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
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • 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.

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