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in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • Alcohol-Impaired-Driving Fatality: A fatality in a crash involving a driver or motorcycle rider (operator) with a BAC of 0.08 g/dL or greater.
  • The effects of methadone last much longer than the effects of heroin. A single dose lasts for about 24 hours, whereas a dose of heroin may only last for a couple of hours.
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • 2.5 million emergency department visits are attributed to drug misuse or overdose.
  • Alprazolam contains powerful addictive properties.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Today, Alcohol is the NO. 1 most abused drug with psychoactive properties in the U.S.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • Ironically, young teens in small towns are more likely to use crystal meth than teens raised in the city.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.

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