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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • Use of illicit drugs or misuse of prescription drugs can make driving a car unsafejust like driving after drinking alcohol.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • The drug Diazepam has over 500 different brand-names worldwide.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • Using Crack Cocaine, even once, can result in life altering addiction.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Barbiturates Caused the death of many celebrities such as Jimi Hendrix and Marilyn Monroe
  • 19.3% of students ages 12-17 who receive average grades of 'D' or lower used marijuana in the past month and 6.9% of students with grades of 'C' or above used marijuana in the past month.
  • Alcohol can impair hormone-releasing glands causing them to alter, which can lead to dangerous medical conditions.

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