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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • Approximately 122,000 people have admitted to using PCP in the past year.
  • After hitting the market, Ativan was used to treat insomnia, vertigo, seizures, and alcohol withdrawal.
  • In 1906, Coca Cola removed Cocaine from the Coca leaves used to make its product.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.

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