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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • 2.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs for the first time, compared to 2.1 million who used marijuana for the first time.
  • Barbiturates were Used by the Nazis during WWII for euthanasia
  • There are programs for alcohol addiction.
  • Younger war veterans (ages 18-25) have a higher likelihood of succumbing to a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • In 1981, Alprazolam released to the United States drug market.
  • Over 1 million people have tried hallucinogens for the fist time this year.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • 8.6% of 12th graders have used hallucinogens 4% report on using LSD specifically.
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • Drug addicts are not the only ones affected by drug addiction.

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