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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • 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.
  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Each year, over 5,000 people under the age of 21 die from Alcohol-related incidents in the U.S alone.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • 12.4 million Americans aged 12 or older tried Ecstasy at least once in their lives, representing 5% of the US population in that age group.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • Getting blackout drunk doesn't actually make you forget: the brain temporarily loses the ability to make memories.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Over 1 million people have tried hallucinogens for the fist time this year.
  • Misuse of alcohol and illicit drugs affects society through costs incurred secondary to crime, reduced productivity at work, and health care expenses.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.

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