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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • GHB is often referred to as Liquid Ecstasy, Easy Lay, Liquid X and Goop
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Over 3 million prescriptions for Suboxone were written in a single year.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Smoking tobacco can cause a miscarriage or a premature birth.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.
  • In 2013, more high school seniors regularly used marijuana than cigarettes as 22.7% smoked pot in the last month, compared to 16.3% who smoked cigarettes.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.

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