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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • 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.
  • Despite 20 years of scientific evidence showing that drug treatment programs do work, the feds fail to offer enough of them to prisoners.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • 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.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • This Schedule IV Narcotic in the U.S. is often used as a date rape drug.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Rohypnol has no odor or taste so it can be put into someone's drink without being detected, which has lead to it being called the "Date Rape Drug".
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.

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