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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Heroin is sold and used in a number of forms including white or brown powder, a black sticky substance (tar heroin), and solid black chunks.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Invisible drugs include coffee, tea, soft drinks, tobacco, beer and wine.
  • Crack cocaine is one of the most powerful illegal drugs when it comes to producing psychological dependence.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.

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