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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Adderall was brought to the prescription drug market as a new way to treat A.D.H.D in 1996, slowly replacing Ritalin.
  • 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.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Amphetamines are the fourth most popular street drug in England and Wales, and second most popular worldwide.
  • Methamphetamine can cause cardiac damage, elevates heart rate and blood pressure, and can cause a variety of cardiovascular problems, including rapid heart rate, irregular heartbeat, and increased blood pressure.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Meth use in the United States varies geographically, with the highest rate of use in the West and the lowest in the Northeast.
  • Adderall use (often prescribed to treat ADHD) has increased among high school seniors from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.5% this year.
  • Crystal Meth is commonly known as glass or ice.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • Over the past 15 years, treatment for addiction to prescription medication has grown by 300%.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • In 2007 The California Department of Toxic Substance Control was responsible for clandestine meth lab cleanup costs in Butte County totaling $26,876.00.
  • The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated the worldwide production of amphetamine-type stimulants, which includes methamphetamine, at nearly 500 metric tons a year, with 24.7 million abusers.
  • Overdoses caused by painkillers are more common than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined.

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