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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • 80% of methadone-related deaths were deemed accidental, even though most cases involved other drugs.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • Methamphetamine can cause cardiac damage, elevates heart rate and blood pressure, and can cause a variety of cardiovascular problems, including rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, and increased blood pressure.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Alprazolam is a generic form of the Benzodiazepine, Xanax.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.
  • Heroin can be smoked using a method called 'chasing the dragon.'
  • Over 3 million prescriptions for Suboxone were written in a single year.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.

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