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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Prescription medication should always be taken under the supervision of a doctor, even then, it must be noted that they can be a risk to the unborn child.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • There are many types of drug and alcohol rehab available throughout the world.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • Hallucinogens (also known as 'psychedelics') can make a person see, hear, smell, feel or taste things that aren't really there or are different from how they are in reality.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • In the year 2006 a total of 13,693 people were admitted to Drug rehab or Alcohol rehab programs in Arkansas.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • An estimated 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women9) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Heroin can lead to addiction, a form of substance use disorder. Withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, and severe heroin cravings.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • Children who learn the dangers of drugs and alcohol early have a better chance of not getting hooked.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.

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