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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • In 2013, that number increased to 3.5 million children on stimulants.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • 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.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • In 2007 The California Department of Toxic Substance Control was responsible for clandestine meth lab cleanup costs in Butte County totaling $26,876.00.
  • Younger war veterans (ages 18-25) have a higher likelihood of succumbing to a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.

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