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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Over 200,000 people have abused Ketamine within the past year.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Nicotine stays in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Between 2000 and 2006 the average number of alcohol related motor vehicle crashes in Utah resulting in death was approximately 59, resulting in an average of nearly 67 fatalities per year.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.

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