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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Drug addiction treatment programs are available for each specific type of drug from marijuana to heroin to cocaine to prescription medication.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • 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.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Never, absolutely NEVER, buy drugs over the internet. It is not as safe as walking into a pharmacy. You honestly do not know what you are going to get or who is going to intervene in the online message.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • 3 Million individuals in the U.S. have been prescribed medications like buprenorphine to treat addiction to opiates.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.
  • Meth can quickly be made with battery acid, antifreeze and drain cleaner.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • Individuals with severe drug problems and or underlying mental health issues typically need longer in-patient drug treatment often times a minimum of 3 months is recommended.

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