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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • 12-17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than ecstasy, heroin, crack/cocaine and methamphetamines combined.1
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • Ecstasy is one of the most popular drugs among youth today.

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