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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • 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.
  • Approximately 28% of Utah adults 18-25 indicated binge drinking in the past months of 2006.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • Daily hashish users have a 50% chance of becoming fully dependent on it.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • Men and women who suddenly stop drinking can have severe withdrawal symptoms.
  • A syringe of morphine was, in a very real sense, a magic wand,' states David Courtwright in Dark Paradise. '
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • 43% of high school seniors have used marijuana.

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