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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • Cocaine comes from the South America coca plant.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Outlaw motorcycle gangs are primarily into distributing marijuana and methamphetamine.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Approximately 28% of teens know at least one person who has used Ecstasy, with 17% knowing more than one person who has tried it.
  • Men and women who suddenly stop drinking can have severe withdrawal symptoms.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • LSD (or its full name: lysergic acid diethylamide) is a potent hallucinogen that dramatically alters your thoughts and your perception of reality.
  • Codeine is a prescription drug, and is part of a group of drugs known as opioids.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.

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