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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • Drug use can interfere with the fetus' organ formation, which takes place during the first ten weeks of conception.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 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
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that more than 9.5% of youths aged 12 to 17 in the US were current illegal drug users.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.

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