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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • 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
  • Steroid use can lead to clogs in the blood vessels, which can then lead to strokes and heart disease.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • In the year 2006 a total of 13,693 people were admitted to Drug rehab or Alcohol rehab programs in Arkansas.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Women who drink have more health and social problems than men who drink
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Cigarettes can kill you and they are the leading preventable cause of death.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2

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