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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • GHB is often referred to as Liquid Ecstasy, Easy Lay, Liquid X and Goop
  • Younger war veterans (ages 18-25) have a higher likelihood of succumbing to a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • In its purest form, heroin is a fine white powder
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Every day 2,000 teens in the United States try prescription drugs to get high for the first time

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