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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to dehydrate.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Over 23.5 million people need treatment for illegal drugs.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • In 1993, inhalation (42%) was the most frequently used route of administration among primary Methamphetamine admissions.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • In addition, users may have cracked teeth due to extreme jaw-clenching during a Crystral Meth high.
  • Family intervention has been found to be upwards of ninety percent successful and professionally conducted interventions have a success rate of near 98 percent.

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