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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • More than 16.3 million adults are impacted by Alcoholism in the U.S. today.
  • Children who learn the dangers of drugs and alcohol early have a better chance of not getting hooked.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • PCP (known as Angel Dust) stays in the system 1-8 days.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Over 23.5 million people need treatment for illegal drugs.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.
  • Methamphetamine can be detected for 2-4 days in a person's system.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.

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