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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • The most prominent drugs being abused in Alabama and requiring rehabilitation were Marijuana, Alcohol and Cocaine in 2006 5,927 people were admitted for Marijuana, 3,446 for Alcohol and an additional 2,557 admissions for Cocaine and Crack.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • 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.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
  • Alprazolam is held accountable for about 125,000 emergency-room visits each year.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.

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