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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Ketamine is considered a predatory drug used in connection with sexual assault.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Rates of illicit drug use is highest among those aged 18 to 25.
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • Men and women who suddenly stop drinking can have severe withdrawal symptoms.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Today, a total of 12 Barbiturates are under international control.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant that has been utilized and abused for ages.
  • Ambien is a sedative-hypnotic known to cause hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and death.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • 80% of methadone-related deaths were deemed accidental, even though most cases involved other drugs.
  • Cigarettes can kill you and they are the leading preventable cause of death.

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