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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive, or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Rates of anti-depressant use have risen by over 400% within just three years.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Gangs, whether street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs or even prison gangs, distribute more drugs on the streets of the U.S. than any other person or persons do.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.

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