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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Drug addiction is a serious problem that can be treated and managed throughout its course.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for sedatives.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • 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.
  • Women who abuse drugs are more prone to sexually transmitted diseases and mental health problems such as depression.
  • 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.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.
  • Heroin usemore than doubledamong young adults ages 1825 in the past decade.
  • LSD can stay in one's system from a few hours to five days.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • Over 30 million people abuse Crystal Meth worldwide.
  • 49.8% of those arrested used crack in the past.

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