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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • In 2009, a Wisconsin man sleepwalked outside and froze to death after taking Ambien.
  • Over 20 million individuals were abusing Darvocet before any limitations were put on the drug.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.

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