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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • More than 10 percent of U.S. children live with a parent with alcohol problems.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • A tweaker can appear normal - eyes clear, speech concise, and movements brisk; however, a closer look will reveal that the person's eyes are moving ten times faster than normal, the voice has a slight quiver, and movements are quick and jerky.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Ketamine is considered a predatory drug used in connection with sexual assault.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.

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