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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • Approximately 1.3 million people in Utah reported Methamphetamine use in the past year, and 512,000 reported current or use within in the past month.
  • Over 60 percent of Americans on Anti-Depressants have been taking them for two or more years.
  • 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.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Cigarettes contain nicotine which is highly addictive.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • Believe it or not, marijuana is NOT a medicine.
  • In 2005, 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. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.
  • Almost 38 million people have admitted to have used cocaine in their lifetime.
  • Nicknames for Alprazolam include Alprax, Kalma, Nu-Alpraz, and Tranax.
  • 300 tons of barbiturates are produced legally in the U.S. every year.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • Cocaine can be snorted, injected, sniffed or smoked.

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