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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Foreign producers now supply much of the U.S. Methamphetamine market, and attempts to bring that production under control have been problematic.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • Texas is one of the hardest states on drug offenses.
  • Approximately 28% of teens know at least one person who has used Ecstasy, with 17% knowing more than one person who has tried it.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.

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