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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Almost 50% of high school seniors have abused a drug of some kind.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • Over 10 million people have used methamphetamine at least once in their lifetime.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 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.
  • Ketamine is used by medical practitioners and veterinarians as an anaesthetic. It is sometimes used illegally by people to get 'high'.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Mixing Ambien with alcohol can cause respiratory distress, coma and death.
  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • In 2007, methamphetamine lab seizures increased slightly in California, but remained considerably low compared to years past.

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