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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Crystal meth comes in clear chunky crystals resembling ice and is most commonly smoked.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Short term rehab effectively helps more women than men, even though they may have suffered more traumatic situations than men did.
  • 1 in every 9 high school seniors has tried synthetic marijuana (also known as 'Spice' or 'K2').
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • 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.
  • 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4.0 percent for women), were attributable to alcohol consumption.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Women in bars can suffer from sexually aggressive acts if they are drinking heavily.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • 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 drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Even a single dose of heroin can start a person on the road to addiction.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.

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