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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Crystal meth comes in clear chunky crystals resembling ice and is most commonly smoked.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • The penalties for drug offenses vary from state to state.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.

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