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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • 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
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Women born after World War 2 were more inclined to become alcoholics than those born before 1943.
  • LSD can stay in one's system from a few hours to five days.
  • Meth users often have bad teeth from poor oral hygiene, dry mouth as meth can crack and deteriorate teeth.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.

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