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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Cocaine stays in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • Because heroin abusers do not know the actual strength of the drug or its true contents, they are at a high risk of overdose or death.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • Street heroin is rarely pure and may range from a white to dark brown powder of varying consistency.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP.
  • A biochemical abnormality in the liver forms in 80 percent of Steroid users.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.

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