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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.
  • The coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Over 13 million individuals abuse stimulants like Dexedrine.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • War veterans often turn to drugs and alcohol to forget what they went through during combat.
  • Interventions can facilitate the development of healthy interpersonal relationships and improve the participant's ability to interact with family, peers, and others in the community.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • The Canadian government reports that 90% of their mescaline is a combination of PCP and LSD
  • 12.4 million Americans aged 12 or older tried Ecstasy at least once in their lives, representing 5% of the US population in that age group.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.

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