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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • In the past 15 years, abuse of prescription drugs, including powerful opioid painkillers such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, has risen alarmingly among all ages, growing fastest among college-age adults, who lead all age groups in the misuse of medications.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine in their lifetime.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive drug and the most rapidly acting of the opiates. Heroin is also known as Big H, Black Tar, Chiva, Hell Dust, Horse, Negra, Smack,Thunder
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • 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.
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • About one in ten Americans over the age of 12 take an Anti-Depressant.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.

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