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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • Stress is the number one factor in drug and alcohol abuse.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • 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.
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • From 2005 to 2008, Anti-Depressants ranked the third top prescription drug taken by Americans.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Krododil users rarely live more than one year after taking it.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • Use of illicit drugs or misuse of prescription drugs can make driving a car unsafejust like driving after drinking alcohol.
  • The U.N. suspects that over 9 million people actively use ecstasy worldwide.
  • 10 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • 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.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.

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