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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Approximately 1.3 million people in Utah reported Methamphetamine use in the past year, and 512,000 reported current or use within in the past month.
  • People who use marijuana believe it to be harmless and want it legalized.
  • Meth can lead to your body overheating, to convulsions and to comas, eventually killing you.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • 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.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • In 1993, inhalation (42%) was the most frequently used route of administration among primary Methamphetamine admissions.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • More than 29% of teens in treatment are there because of an addiction to prescription medication.
  • Inhalants include volatile solvents, gases and nitrates.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • 12-17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than ecstasy, heroin, crack/cocaine and methamphetamines combined.1
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.

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