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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • A tolerance to cocaine develops quicklythe addict soon fails to achieve the same high experienced earlier from the same amount of cocaine.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Nearly one third of mushroom users reported heightened levels of anxiety.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • There are approximately 5,000 LSD-related emergency room visits per year.
  • Women in college who drank experienced higher levels of sexual aggression acts from men.
  • Gases can be medical products or household items or commercial products.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.

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