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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • In 2007, methamphetamine lab seizures increased slightly in California, but remained considerably low compared to years past.
  • Ritalin and related 'hyperactivity' type drugs can be found almost anywhere.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • MDMA is known on the streets as: Molly, ecstasy, XTC, X, E, Adam, Eve, clarity, hug, beans, love drug, lovers' speed, peace, uppers.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.

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