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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • 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.
  • Anorectic drugs have increased in order to suppress appetites, especially among teenage girls and models.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from processed extracts of the leaves of the coca plant. 'Crack' is a type of processed cocaine that is formed into a rock-like crystal.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • Over 60 percent of Americans on Anti-Depressants have been taking them for two or more years.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.

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