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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • About 72% of all cases reported to poison centers for substance use were calls from people's homes.
  • Nicotine stays in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Adderall on the streets is known as: Addies, Study Drugs, the Smart Drug.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • 37% of individuals claim that the United States is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • In 1805, morphine and codeine were isolated from opium, and morphine was used as a cure for opium addiction since its addictive characteristics were not known.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.

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