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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • 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.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Anti-Depressants are often combined with Alcohol, which increases the risk of poisoning and overdose.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.

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