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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Crack cocaine gets its name from how it breaks into little rocks after being produced.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • In 2007, 33 counties in California reported the seizure of clandestine labs, compared with 21 counties reporting seizing labs in 2006.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.

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