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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Illegal drug use is declining while prescription drug abuse is rising thanks to online pharmacies and illegal selling.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • 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.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • Alcohol is a drug because of its intoxicating effect but it is widely accepted socially.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • 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.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Every day in America, approximately 10 young people between the ages of 13 and 24 are diagnosed with HIV/AIDSand many of them are infected through risky behaviors associated with drug use.

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