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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • In Utah, more than 95,000 adults and youths need substance-abuse treatment services, according to the Utah Division of Substance and Mental Health 2007 annual report.
  • Oxycodone stays in the system 1-10 days.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Alprazolam is held accountable for about 125,000 emergency-room visits each year.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • 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.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • 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

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