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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Codeine is widely used in the U.S. by prescription and over the counter for use as a pain reliever and cough suppressant.
  • Ketamine is considered a predatory drug used in connection with sexual assault.
  • Over 200,000 people have abused Ketamine within the past year.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • Rohypnol (The Date Rape Drug) is more commonly known as "roofies".
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • 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.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • Nearly 23 Million people are in need of treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Women who drink have more health and social problems than men who drink
  • Relapse is the return to drug use after an attempt to stop. Relapse indicates the need for more or different treatment.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.

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