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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • At this time, medical professionals recommended amphetamine as a cure for a range of ailmentsalcohol hangover, narcolepsy, depression, weight reduction, hyperactivity in children, and vomiting associated with pregnancy.
  • 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.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • 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.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • 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.
  • The stressful situations that trigger alcohol and drug abuse in women is often more severe than that in men.
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Those who complete prison-based treatment and continue with treatment in the community have the best outcomes.
  • Barbiturates have been use in the past to treat a variety of symptoms from insomnia and dementia to neonatal jaundice
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • In 2007, methamphetamine lab seizures increased slightly in California, but remained considerably low compared to years past.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • 7.6% of teens use the prescription drug Aderall.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.

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