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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Even if you smoke just a few cigarettes a week, you can get addicted to nicotine in a few weeks or even days. The more cigarettes you smoke, the more likely you are to become addicted.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Hallucinogens also cause physical changes such as increased heart rate, elevating blood pressure and dilating pupils.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Cocaine first appeared in American society in the 1880s.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • In Utah, more than 95,000 adults and youths need substance-abuse treatment services, according to the Utah Division of Substance and Mental Health 2007 annual report.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • Adderall on the streets is known as: Addies, Study Drugs, the Smart Drug.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • 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.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.

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