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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • Prescription painkillers are powerful drugs that interfere with the nervous system's transmission of the nerve signals we perceive as pain.
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • Crack Cocaine use became enormously popular in the mid-1980's, particularly in urban areas.
  • Two-thirds of people 12 and older (68%) who have abused prescription pain relievers within the past year say they got them from a friend or relative.1
  • Crack Cocaine is categorized next to PCP and Meth as an illegal Schedule II drug.
  • Oxycodone is usually swallowed but is sometimes injected or used as a suppository.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Over 2.3 million adolescents were reported to be abusing prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • The penalties for drug offenses vary from state to state.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Inhalants include volatile solvents, gases and nitrates.

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