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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • In 2014, over 913,000 people were reported to be addicted to cocaine.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Nearly 2/3 of those found in addiction recovery centers report sexual or physical abuse as children.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • By 8th grade, before even entering high school, approximately have of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 41% have smoked cigarettes and 20% have used marijuana.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.

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