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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Barbiturates are a class B drug, meaning that any use outside of a prescription is met with prison time and a fine.
  • The National Institutes of Health suggests, the vast majority of people who commit crimes have problems with drugs or alcohol, and locking them up without trying to address those problems would be a waste of money.
  • A binge is uncontrolled use of a drug or alcohol.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • 12.4 million Americans aged 12 or older tried Ecstasy at least once in their lives, representing 5% of the US population in that age group.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous and potent drugs, with the great potential of causing seizures and heart-related injuries such as stopping the heart, whether one is a short term or long term user.
  • Interventions can facilitate the development of healthy interpersonal relationships and improve the participant's ability to interact with family, peers, and others in the community.

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