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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • A binge is uncontrolled use of a drug or alcohol.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • Almost 38 million people have admitted to have used cocaine in their lifetime.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • 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.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • The most prominent drugs being abused in Alabama and requiring rehabilitation were Marijuana, Alcohol and Cocaine in 2006 5,927 people were admitted for Marijuana, 3,446 for Alcohol and an additional 2,557 admissions for Cocaine and Crack.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • 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.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • Between 2000 and 2006 the average number of alcohol related motor vehicle crashes in Utah resulting in death was approximately 59, resulting in an average of nearly 67 fatalities per year.

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