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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • In 2013, over 50 million prescriptions were written for Alprazolam.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.

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