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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Younger war veterans (ages 18-25) have a higher likelihood of succumbing to a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • GHB is often referred to as Liquid Ecstasy, Easy Lay, Liquid X and Goop
  • Bath salts contain man-made stimulants called cathinone's, which are like amphetamines.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Methamphetamine can be swallowed, snorted, smoked and injected by users.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Teens who consistently learn about the risks of drugs from their parents are up to 50% less likely to use drugs than those who don't.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Heroin can lead to addiction, a form of substance use disorder. Withdrawal symptoms include muscle and bone pain, sleep problems, diarrhea and vomiting, and severe heroin cravings.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • There are innocent people behind bars because of the drug conspiracy laws.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.

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