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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • 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.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • In 2011, over 800,000 Americans reported having an addiction to cocaine.
  • Children who learn the dangers of drugs and alcohol early have a better chance of not getting hooked.

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