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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • 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.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • One of the strongest forms of Amphetamines is Meth, which can come in powder, tablet or crystal form.
  • Cocaine hydrochloride is most commonly snorted. It can also be injected, rubbed into the gums, added to drinks or food.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • Using Crack Cocaine, even once, can result in life altering addiction.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • LSD can stay in one's system from a few hours to five days.
  • Mixing Ambien with alcohol can cause respiratory distress, coma and death.
  • In 2007, 33 counties in California reported the seizure of clandestine labs, compared with 21 counties reporting seizing labs in 2006.

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