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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Depressants are widely used to relieve stress, induce sleep and relieve anxiety.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Men and women who suddenly stop drinking can have severe withdrawal symptoms.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • Many people wrongly imprisoned under conspiracy laws are women who did nothing more than pick up a phone and take a message for their spouse, boyfriend, child or neighbor.
  • There are more than 200 identified synthetic drug compounds and more than 90 different synthetic drug marijuana compounds.
  • 55% of all inhalant-related deaths are nearly instantaneous, known as 'Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome.'
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • The United States consumes over 75% of the world's prescription medications.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.

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