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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • 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.
  • Painkillers are among the most commonly abused prescription drugs.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Each year Alcohol use results in nearly 2,000 college student's deaths.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant that has been utilized and abused for ages.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • In 1904, Barbiturates were introduced for further medicinal purposes
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • 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).
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Alcohol can impair hormone-releasing glands causing them to alter, which can lead to dangerous medical conditions.
  • There are more than 200 identified synthetic drug compounds and more than 90 different synthetic drug marijuana compounds.

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