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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Methamphetamine production is a relatively simple process, especially when compared to many other recreational drugs.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • In 2010, around 13 million people have abused methamphetamines in their life and approximately 350,000 people were regular users. This number increased by over 80,000 the following year.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • A biochemical abnormality in the liver forms in 80 percent of Steroid users.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Meth users often have bad teeth from poor oral hygiene, dry mouth as meth can crack and deteriorate teeth.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • Heroin can lead to addiction, a form of substance use disorder. Withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, and severe heroin cravings.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.

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