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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Over 2.1 million people in the United States abused Anti-Depressants in 2011 alone.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Texas is one of the hardest states on drug offenses.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.

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