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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Hallucinogen rates have risen by over 30% over the past twenty years.
  • The coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • The high potency of fentanyl greatly increases risk of overdose.
  • The number of Americans with an addiction to heroin nearly doubled from 2007 to 2011.
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous stimulants of natural origin.

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