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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant made from the coca plant.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • In 2007, methamphetamine lab seizures increased slightly in California, but remained considerably low compared to years past.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Bath salts contain man-made stimulants called cathinone's, which are like amphetamines.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Overdose deaths linked to Benzodiazepines, like Ativan, have seen a 4.3-fold increase from 2002 to 2015.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.

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