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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Anti-Depressants are often combined with Alcohol, which increases the risk of poisoning and overdose.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • In 1929, chemist Gordon Alles was looking for a treatment for asthma and tested the chemical now known as Amphetamine, a main component of Adderall, on himself.
  • Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 9,967 deaths (31 percent of overall driving fatalities).
  • The number of people receiving treatment for addiction to painkillers and sedatives has doubled since 2002.
  • Two-thirds of the ER visits related to Ambien were by females.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • 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.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • 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.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Like amphetamine, methamphetamine increases activity, decreases appetite and causes a general sense of well-being.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • Krododil users rarely live more than one year after taking it.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Studies show that 11 percent of male high schoolers have reported using Steroids at least once.
  • 100 people die every day from drug overdoses. This rate has tripled in the past 20 years.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • In Utah, more than 95,000 adults and youths need substance-abuse treatment services, according to the Utah Division of Substance and Mental Health 2007 annual report.

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