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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 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
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.
  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • Inhalants include volatile solvents, gases and nitrates.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Invisible drugs include coffee, tea, soft drinks, tobacco, beer and wine.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • 37% of individuals claim that the United States is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • 26.9 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they engaged in binge drinking in the past month.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • There were over 1.8 million Americans 12 or older who used a hallucinogen or inhalant for the first time. (1.1 million among hallucinogens)
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • 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.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • The coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.

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