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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • 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 also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • 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.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • 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 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Nearly 23 Million people are in need of treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Smoking crack cocaine can lead to sudden death by means of a heart attack or stroke right then.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Stimulants have both medical and non medical recreational uses and long term use can be hazardous to your health.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.

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