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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • US National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Approximately 122,000 people have admitted to using PCP in the past year.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease

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