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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • 64% of teens say they have used prescription pain killers that they got from a friend or family member.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • 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
  • Today, it remains a very problematic and popular drug, as it's cheap to produce and much cheaper to purchase than powder cocaine.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • 13% of 9th graders report they have tried prescription painkillers to get high.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.

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