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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • In Russia, Krokodil is estimated to kill 30,000 people each year.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • Gases can be medical products or household items or commercial products.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.

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