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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Younger war veterans (ages 18-25) have a higher likelihood of succumbing to a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
  • 37% of individuals claim that the United States is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Many veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) drink or abuse drugs.
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.

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