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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Methadone was created by chemists in Germany in WWII.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Authority obtains over 10,500 accounts of clonazepam abuse annually.
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Over 30 Million people have admitted to abusing a cannabis-based product within the last year.
  • The penalties for drug offenses vary from state to state.
  • Younger war veterans (ages 18-25) have a higher likelihood of succumbing to a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.

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