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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • 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
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.
  • Cocaine is sometimes taken with other drugs, including tranquilizers, amphetamines,2 marijuana and heroin.
  • Use of illicit drugs or misuse of prescription drugs can make driving a car unsafejust like driving after drinking alcohol.
  • Many smokers say they have trouble cutting down on the amount of cigarettes they smoke. This is a sign of addiction.
  • 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.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.
  • In its purest form, heroin is a fine white powder
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Over 500,000 individuals have abused Ambien.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.

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