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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Nicotine is just as addictive as heroin, cocaine or alcohol. That's why it's so easy to get hooked.
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Adderall use (often prescribed to treat ADHD) has increased among high school seniors from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.5% this year.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • 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.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • 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.
  • The biggest abusers of prescription drugs aged 18-25.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Medial drugs include prescription medication, cold and allergy meds, pain relievers and antibiotics.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • More than 100,000 babies are born addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S., due to their mothers' use of the drug during pregnancy.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.

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