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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Crystal meth comes in clear chunky crystals resembling ice and is most commonly smoked.
  • Nearly 23 Million people are in need of treatment for chemical dependency.
  • 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.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • 54% of high school seniors do not think regular steroid use is harmful, the lowest number since 1980, when the National Institute on Drug Abuse started asking about perception on steroids.
  • 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.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Emergency room admissions due to Subutex abuse has risen by over 200% in just three years.
  • Women in bars can suffer from sexually aggressive acts if they are drinking heavily.

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