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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • Methamphetamine usually comes in the form of a crystalline white powder that is odorless, bitter-tasting and dissolves easily in water or alcohol.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • Two-thirds of the ER visits related to Ambien were by females.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Emergency room admissions due to Subutex abuse has risen by over 200% in just three years.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Over 20 million Americans over the age of 12 have an addiction (excluding tobacco).
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.

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