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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • Adderall is linked to cases of sudden death due to heart complications.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • Ecstasy increases levels of several chemicals in the brain, including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. It alters your mood and makes you feel closer and more connected to others.
  • Stimulants when abused lead to a "rush" feeling.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • 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.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • 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.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • 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.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • Many people wrongly imprisoned under conspiracy laws are women who did nothing more than pick up a phone and take a message for their spouse, boyfriend, child or neighbor.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Stimulants have both medical and non medical recreational uses and long term use can be hazardous to your health.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • In 2003, smoking (56%) was the most frequently used route of administration followed by injection, inhalation, oral, and other.

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