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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Methamphetamine can cause rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure, elevated body temperature and convulsions.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Popular among children and parents were the Cocaine toothache drops.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Over 6 million people have ever admitted to using PCP in their lifetimes.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Over 80% of individuals have confidence that prescription drug abuse will only continue to grow.
  • Over 26 percent of all Ambien-related ER cases were admitted to a critical care unit or ICU.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.

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