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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous stimulants of natural origin.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Only 9% of people actually get help for substance use and addiction.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • Over 600,000 people has been reported to have used ecstasy within the last month.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Crack Cocaine is categorized next to PCP and Meth as an illegal Schedule II drug.
  • Methamphetamine can cause cardiac damage, elevates heart rate and blood pressure, and can cause a variety of cardiovascular problems, including rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, and increased blood pressure.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Approximately 1.3 million people in Utah reported Methamphetamine use in the past year, and 512,000 reported current or use within in the past month.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.

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