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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • Adderall is a Schedule II controlled substance, meaning that it has a high potential for addiction.
  • 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.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • Out of all the benzodiazepine emergency room visits 78% of individuals are using other substances.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Steroids can cause disfiguring ailments such as baldness in girls and severe acne in all who use them.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.

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