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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • 80% of methadone-related deaths were deemed accidental, even though most cases involved other drugs.
  • Meth creates an immediate high that quickly fades. As a result, users often take it repeatedly, making it extremely addictive.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • GHB is often referred to as Liquid Ecstasy, Easy Lay, Liquid X and Goop
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Only 9% of people actually get help for substance use and addiction.
  • 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.

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