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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • Children who learn the dangers of drugs and alcohol early have a better chance of not getting hooked.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Ecstasy can stay in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease

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