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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • 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.
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • Men and women who suddenly stop drinking can have severe withdrawal symptoms.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • Alcohol is the most likely substance for someone to become addicted to in America.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Over 60 percent of Americans on Anti-Depressants have been taking them for two or more years.
  • Many veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) drink or abuse drugs.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.

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