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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • Over 5 million emergency room visits in 2011 were drug related.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • 45% of those who use prior to the age of 15 will later develop an addiction.
  • Steroids damage hormones, causing guys to grow breasts and girls to grow beards and facial hair.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • The word cocaine refers to the drug in a powder form or crystal form.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Smoking crack allows it to reach the brain more quickly and thus brings an intense and immediatebut very short-livedhigh that lasts about fifteen minutes.

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