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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • Over 52% of teens who use bath salts also combine them with other drugs.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • 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.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • The high potency of fentanyl greatly increases risk of overdose.

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