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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Adderall originally came about by accident.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Nearly 23 Million people need treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • Illegal drug use is declining while prescription drug abuse is rising thanks to online pharmacies and illegal selling.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.

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