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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • The United States consumes over 75% of the world's prescription medications.
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
  • 45%of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.
  • More teenagers die from taking prescription drugs than the use of cocaine AND heroin combined.
  • 22.7 million people (as of 2007) have reported using LSD in their lifetime.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Mixing Adderall with Alcohol increases the risk of cardiovascular problems.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Flashbacks can occur in people who have abused hallucinogens even months after they stop taking them.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Subutex use has increased by over 66% within just two years.

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