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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • In 2005, 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. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • GHB is often referred to as Liquid Ecstasy, Easy Lay, Liquid X and Goop
  • Oxycontin has risen by over 80% within three years.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • There were over 20,000 ecstasy-related emergency room visits in 2011
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • Stimulants like Khat cause up to 170,000 emergency room admissions each year.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'.
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • One of the strongest forms of Amphetamines is Meth, which can come in powder, tablet or crystal form.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • A tweaker can appear normal - eyes clear, speech concise, and movements brisk; however, a closer look will reveal that the person's eyes are moving ten times faster than normal, the voice has a slight quiver, and movements are quick and jerky.
  • 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.
  • 80% of methadone-related deaths were deemed accidental, even though most cases involved other drugs.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.

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