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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Alcohol is the number one substance-related cause of depression in people.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 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.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.

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