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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Many people wrongly imprisoned under conspiracy laws are women who did nothing more than pick up a phone and take a message for their spouse, boyfriend, child or neighbor.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • Over 3 million prescriptions for Suboxone were written in a single year.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.

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