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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Mescaline (AKA: Cactus, cactus buttons, cactus joint, mesc, mescal, mese, mezc, moon, musk, topi): occurs naturally in certain types of cactus plants, including the peyote cactus.
  • 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.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Ketamine is considered a predatory drug used in connection with sexual assault.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • Methamphetamine usually comes in the form of a crystalline white powder that is odorless, bitter-tasting and dissolves easily in water or alcohol.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Crystal Meth is the world's second most popular illicit drug.
  • Younger war veterans (ages 18-25) have a higher likelihood of succumbing to a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.

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