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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • The poppy plant, from which heroin is derived, grows in mild climates around the world, including Afghanistan, Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, Pakistan, India Burma, Thailand, Australia, and China.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Drug addiction is a serious problem that can be treated and managed throughout its course.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • There are programs for alcohol addiction.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • When injected, it can cause decay of muscle tissues and closure of blood vessels.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Individuals with severe drug problems and or underlying mental health issues typically need longer in-patient drug treatment often times a minimum of 3 months is recommended.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • In 2009, a Wisconsin man sleepwalked outside and froze to death after taking Ambien.

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