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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Street amphetamine: bennies, black beauties, copilots, eye-openers, lid poppers, pep pills, speed, uppers, wake-ups, and white crosses28
  • 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.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • The younger you are, the more likely you are to become addicted to nicotine. If you're a teenager, your risk is especially high.
  • The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.
  • Marijuana is just as damaging to the lungs and airway as cigarettes are, leading to bronchitis, emphysema and even cancer.
  • The generic form of Oxycontin poses a bigger threat to those who abuse it, raising the number of poison control center calls remarkably.
  • Some designer drugs have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • Amphetamine was first made in 1887 in Germany and methamphetamine, more potent and easy to make, was developed in Japan in 1919.
  • There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • 9.4 million people in 2011 reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • High dosages of ketamine can lead to the feeling of an out of body experience or even death.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • Meth can damage blood vessels in the brain, causing strokes.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.

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