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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • When taken, meth and crystal meth create a false sense of well-being and energy, and so a person will tend to push his body faster and further than it is meant to go.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Drug addiction is a serious problem that can be treated and managed throughout its course.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Over 750,000 people have used LSD within the past year.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Adderall use (often prescribed to treat ADHD) has increased among high school seniors from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.5% this year.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.

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