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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • 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.
  • People who use heroin regularly are likely to develop a physical dependence.
  • Over 6.1 Million Americans have abused prescription medication within the last month.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Ecstasy is emotionally damaging and users often suffer depression, confusion, severe anxiety, paranoia, psychotic behavior and other psychological problems.
  • Over a quarter million of drug-related emergency room visits are related to heroin abuse.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Bath salts contain man-made stimulants called cathinone's, which are like amphetamines.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, over a half million of teens aged 12 to 17 had used inhalants.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • Snorting amphetamines can damage the nasal passage and cause nose bleeds.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs known to man.

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