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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • Cocaine hydrochloride is most commonly snorted. It can also be injected, rubbed into the gums, added to drinks or food.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • 70% to 80% of the world's cocaine comes from Columbia.
  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Short term rehab effectively helps more women than men, even though they may have suffered more traumatic situations than men did.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.

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