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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.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Even if you smoke just a few cigarettes a week, you can get addicted to nicotine in a few weeks or even days. The more cigarettes you smoke, the more likely you are to become addicted.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Benzodiazepines ('Benzos'), like brand-name medications Valium and Xanax, are among the most commonly prescribed depressants in the US.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • A biochemical abnormality in the liver forms in 80 percent of Steroid users.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Crystal meth comes in clear chunky crystals resembling ice and is most commonly smoked.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • More than 50% of abused medications are obtained from a friend or family member.

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