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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • When a pregnant woman takes drugs, her unborn child is taking them, too.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.
  • Children who learn the dangers of drugs and alcohol early have a better chance of not getting hooked.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • In 2010, around 13 million people have abused methamphetamines in their life and approximately 350,000 people were regular users. This number increased by over 80,000 the following year.

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