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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • The drug was first synthesized in the 1960's by Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • After hitting the market, Ativan was used to treat insomnia, vertigo, seizures, and alcohol withdrawal.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.
  • Nearly half of those who use heroin reportedly started abusing prescription pain killers before they ever used heroin.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Teens who consistently learn about the risks of drugs from their parents are up to 50% less likely to use drugs than those who don't.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • Medical consequences of chronic heroin injection abuse include scarred and/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves, abscesses (boils) and other soft-tissue infections, and liver or kidney disease.
  • In 2010, 42,274 emergency rooms visits were due to Ambien.

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