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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • 10 to 22% of automobile accidents involve drivers who are using drugs.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Ambien is a sedative-hypnotic known to cause hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and death.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Nitrous oxide is a medical gas that is referred to as "laughing gas" among users.
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.

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