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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • Drugs and alcohol do not discriminate no matter what your gender, race, age or political affiliation addiction can affect you if you let it.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.
  • Children, innocent drivers, families, the environment, all are affected by drug addiction even if they have never taken a drink or tried a drug.
  • Substance Use Treatment at a Specialty Facility: Treatment received at a hospital (inpatient only), rehabilitation facility (inpatient or outpatient), or mental health center to reduce alcohol use, or to address medical problems associated with alcohol use.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • The Use of Methamphetamine surged in the 1950's and 1960's, when users began injecting more frequently.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Ativan is one of the strongest Benzodiazepines on the market.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.

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