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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Crack Cocaine is categorized next to PCP and Meth as an illegal Schedule II drug.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • Between 2006 and 2010, 9 out of 10 antidepressant patents expired, resulting in a huge loss of pharmaceutical companies.
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • There are confidential rehab facilities which treat celebrities and executives so they you can get clean without the paparazzi or business associates finding out.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Many veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) drink or abuse drugs.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • K2 and Spice are synthetic marijuana compounds, also known as cannabinoids.

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