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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.
  • Rates of K2 Spice use have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • 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
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.

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