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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Meth creates an immediate high that quickly fades. As a result, users often take it repeatedly, making it extremely addictive.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Mixing Ativan with depressants, such as alcohol, can lead to seizures, coma and death.
  • Ecstasy is emotionally damaging and users often suffer depression, confusion, severe anxiety, paranoia, psychotic behavior and other psychological problems.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for tranquilizers.
  • Alcohol misuse cost the United States $249.0 billion.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • Colombia's drug trade is worth US$10 billion. That's one-quarter as much as the country's legal exports.

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