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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Substance Use Treatment at a Specialty Facility: Treatment received at a hospital (inpatient only), rehabilitation facility (inpatient or outpatient), or mental health center to reduce alcohol use, or to address medical problems associated with alcohol use.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • Over 80% of individuals have confidence that prescription drug abuse will only continue to grow.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • 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.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Nearly 300,000 Americans received treatment for hallucinogens in 2011.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • Meth has a high potential for abuse and may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • Those who abuse barbiturates are at a higher risk of getting pneumonia or bronchitis.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • Some designer drugs have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.

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