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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • People inject, snort, or smoke heroin. Some people mix heroin with crack cocaine, called a speedball.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Smoking tobacco can cause a miscarriage or a premature birth.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • Statistics say that prohibition made Alcohol abuse worse, with more people drinking more than ever.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • A tweaker can appear normal - eyes clear, speech concise, and movements brisk; however, a closer look will reveal that the person's eyes are moving ten times faster than normal, the voice has a slight quiver, and movements are quick and jerky.
  • 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.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.

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