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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Over 80% of individuals have confidence that prescription drug abuse will only continue to grow.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Valium is a drug that is used to manage anxiety disorders.
  • 43% of high school seniors have used marijuana.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Amphetamines + alcohol, cannabis or benzodiazepines: the body is placed under a high degree of stress as it attempts to deal with the conflicting effects of both types of drugs, which can lead to an overdose.
  • Over 13 million Americans have admitted to abusing CNS stimulants.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine in their lifetime.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.

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