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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Methamphetamine has also been used in the treatment of obesity.
  • Meth creates an immediate high that quickly fades. As a result, users often take it repeatedly, making it extremely addictive.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • Taking Steroids raises the risk of aggression and irritability to over 56 percent.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Rates of valium abuse have tripled within the course of ten years.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Inhalants include volatile solvents, gases and nitrates.

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