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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • Overdose deaths linked to Benzodiazepines, like Ativan, have seen a 4.3-fold increase from 2002 to 2015.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Alcohol is the number one substance-related cause of depression in people.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Despite 20 years of scientific evidence showing that drug treatment programs do work, the feds fail to offer enough of them to prisoners.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.

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