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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Over 1 million people have tried hallucinogens for the fist time this year.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Cocaine use is highest among Americans aged 18 to 25.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.

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