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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • Marijuana can stay in a person's system for 3-5 days, however, if you are a heavy user, it can be detected up to 30 days.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • 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.
  • In Alabama during the year 2006 a total of 20,340 people were admitted to Drug rehab or Alcohol rehab programs.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Nitrates are also inhalants that come in the form of leather cleaners and room deodorizers.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • Stimulant drugs, such as Adderall, are the second most abused drug on college campuses, next to Marijuana.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • In 1993, inhalation (42%) was the most frequently used route of administration among primary Methamphetamine admissions.

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