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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP. The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • In 2011, a Pennsylvania couple stabbed the walls in their apartment to attack the '90 people living in their walls.'
  • 60% of seniors don't see regular marijuana use as harmful, but THC (the active ingredient in the drug that causes addiction) is nearly 5 times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
  • Bath Salt use has been linked to violent behavior, however not all stories are violent.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Barbituric acid was first created in 1864 by a German scientist named Adolf von Baeyer. It was a combination of urea from animals and malonic acid from apples.
  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • One in five adolescents have admitted to abusing inhalants.
  • Drug abuse and addiction changes your brain chemistry. The longer you use your drug of choice, the more damage is done and the harder it is to go back to 'normal' during drug rehab.
  • 3 million people over the age of 12 have used methamphetamineand 529,000 of those are regular users.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.

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