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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Alcohol blocks messages trying to get to the brain, altering a person's vision, perception, movements, emotions and hearing.
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • Despite 20 years of scientific evidence showing that drug treatment programs do work, the feds fail to offer enough of them to prisoners.
  • Smoking tobacco can cause a miscarriage or a premature birth.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Colombia's drug trade is worth US$10 billion. That's one-quarter as much as the country's legal exports.
  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • Adderall is linked to cases of sudden death due to heart complications.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.

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