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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Prescription medication should always be taken under the supervision of a doctor, even then, it must be noted that they can be a risk to the unborn child.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • 10 to 22% of automobile accidents involve drivers who are using drugs.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Using Crack Cocaine, even once, can result in life altering addiction.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.
  • 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.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Young adults from 18-25 are 50% more than any other age group.
  • Over 53 Million Opiate-based prescriptions are filled each year.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • 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.
  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • Over 750,000 people have used LSD within the past year.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.

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