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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Over 60 Million are said to have prescription for sedatives.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • 33.1 percent of 15-year-olds report that they have had at least 1 drink in their lives.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.
  • Mescaline is 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Cigarettes can kill you and they are the leading preventable cause of death.
  • High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • Meth, or methamphetamine, is a powerfully addictive stimulant that is both long-lasting and toxic to the brain. Its chemistry is similar to speed (amphetamine), but meth has far more dangerous effects on the body's central nervous system.
  • Selling and sharing prescription drugs is not legal.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • During the 2000's many older drugs were reapproved for new use in depression treatment.
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.

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