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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • 3 Million people in the United States have been prescribed Suboxone to treat opioid addiction.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.
  • 80% of methadone-related deaths were deemed accidental, even though most cases involved other drugs.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1

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