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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant that has been utilized and abused for ages.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • In 2014, there were over 39,000 unintentional drug overdose deaths in the United States
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • Nicotine stays in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • 1.3% of high school seniors have tired bath salts.

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