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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Drug abuse is linked to at least half of the crimes committed in the U.S.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Nicotine is so addictive that many smokers who want to stop just can't give up cigarettes.
  • Over 23.5 million people need treatment for illegal drugs.
  • 77% of college students who abuse steroids also abuse at least one other substance.
  • 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.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs, including Ritalinmore than the number who abused cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, Ecstasy and inhalants combined.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.

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