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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Two-thirds of the ER visits related to Ambien were by females.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • Cocaine has long been used for its ability to boost energy, relieve fatigue and lessen hunger.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine in their lifetime.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).

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