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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Opiates work well to relieve pain. But you can get addicted to them quickly, if you don't use them correctly.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • American dies from a prescription drug overdose every 19 minutes.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Veterans who fought in combat had higher risk of becoming addicted to drugs or becoming alcoholics than veterans who did not see combat.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • 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.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Crack cocaine is derived from powdered cocaine offering a euphoric high that is even more stimulating than powdered cocaine.
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • Ritalin and related 'hyperactivity' type drugs can be found almost anywhere.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Methamphetamine and amphetamine were both originally used in nasal decongestants and in bronchial inhalers.

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