Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

Cocaine is a stimulant that has been utilized and abused for ages.
Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for tranquilizers.
Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
80% of methadone-related deaths were deemed accidental, even though most cases involved other drugs.
Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
Young adults from 18-25 are 50% more than any other age group.
Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
Crystal meth is a stimulant that can be smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected.
Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
Taking Steroids raises the risk of aggression and irritability to over 56 percent.
In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.

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