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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Women born after World War 2 were more inclined to become alcoholics than those born before 1943.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Mixing Adderall with Alcohol increases the risk of cardiovascular problems.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Some designer drugs have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • Taking Steroids raises the risk of aggression and irritability to over 56 percent.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • Half of all Ambien related ER visits involved other drug interaction.
  • The euphoric feeling of cocaine is then followed by a crash filled with depression and paranoia.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.

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