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in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Ritalin and related 'hyperactivity' type drugs can be found almost anywhere.
  • These days, taking pills is acceptable: there is the feeling that there is a "pill for everything".
  • 2.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs for the first time, compared to 2.1 million who used marijuana for the first time.
  • 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.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • Hallucinogen rates have risen by over 30% over the past twenty years.
  • By June 2011, the PCC had received over 3,470 calls about Bath Salts.
  • Approximately 500,000 individuals annually abuse prescription medications for their first time.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • Approximately 35,000,000 Americans a year have been admitted into the hospital due abusing medications like Darvocet.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • The 2013 World Drug Report reported that Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide, manufacturing 74 percent of illicit opiates. Mexico, however, is the leading supplier to the United States.
  • There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.

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