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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
  • Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • More than9 in 10people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • An estimated 208 million people internationally consume illegal drugs.
  • Babies can be born addicted to drugs.
  • Ecstasy can stay in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • The United States was the country in which heroin addiction first became a serious problem.
  • The Department of Justice listed the Chicago metro area as the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • The National Institute of Justice research shows that, compared with traditional criminal justice strategies, drug treatment and other costs came to about $1,400 per drug court participant, saving the government about $6,700 on average per participant.

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