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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Drug addiction is a serious problem that can be treated and managed throughout its course.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for sedatives.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • The number of habitual cocaine users has declined by 75% since 1986, but it's still a popular drug for many people.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Alcohol is a depressant derived from the fermentation of natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and grains.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • 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.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.

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