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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Over 23.5 million people need treatment for illegal drugs.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • Alcohol can impair hormone-releasing glands causing them to alter, which can lead to dangerous medical conditions.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • 22.7 million people (as of 2007) have reported using LSD in their lifetime.

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