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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Abuse of the painkiller Fentanyl killed more than 1,000 people.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • In 2013, over 50 million prescriptions were written for Alprazolam.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Brand names of Bath Salts include Blizzard, Blue Silk, Charge+, Ivory Snow, Ivory Wave, Ocean Burst, Pure Ivory, Purple Wave, Snow Leopard, Stardust, Vanilla Sky, White Dove, White Knight and White Lightning.
  • Many veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) drink or abuse drugs.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for tranquilizers.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.

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