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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • Cocaine use can cause the placenta to separate from the uterus, causing internal bleeding.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • Chronic crystal meth users also often display poor hygiene, a pale, unhealthy complexion, and sores on their bodies from picking at 'crank bugs' - the tactile hallucination that tweakers often experience.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • Heroin stays in a person's system 1-10 days.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • K2 and Spice are synthetic marijuana compounds, also known as cannabinoids.
  • Hallucinogens are drugs used to alter the perception and function of the mind.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • 11.6% of those arrested used crack in the previous week.

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