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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • 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.
  • Only 9% of people actually get help for substance use and addiction.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • In 2007, methamphetamine lab seizures increased slightly in California, but remained considerably low compared to years past.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • In 2011, over 65 million doses of Krokodil were seized within just three months.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".
  • 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
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.

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