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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • 8.6% of 12th graders have used hallucinogens 4% report on using LSD specifically.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • 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.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • 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.
  • Underage Drinking: Alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21. In the United States, the legal drinking age is 21.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Rohypnol causes a person to black out or forget what happened to them.
  • Half of all Ambien related ER visits involved other drug interaction.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • The penalties for drug offenses vary from state to state.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.

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