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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on 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.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Hallucinogen rates have risen by over 30% over the past twenty years.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • 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.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Test subjects who were given cocaine and Ritalin could not tell the difference.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.

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