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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • 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illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Crack cocaine earned the nickname crack because of the cracking sound it makes when it is heated.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.

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