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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • 9% of teens in a recent study reported using prescription pain relievers not prescribed for them in the past year, and 5% (1 in 20) reported doing so in the past month.3
  • 26.9 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they engaged in binge drinking in the past month.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • Women born after World War 2 were more inclined to become alcoholics than those born before 1943.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • 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.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • A person can become more tolerant to heroin so, after a short time, more and more heroin is needed to produce the same level of intensity.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • People who abuse anabolic steroids usually take them orally or inject them into the muscles.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • Heroin withdrawal occurs within just a few hours since the last use. Symptoms include diarrhea, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps, and bone and muscle pain.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • Excessive use of alcohol can lead to sexual impotence.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.

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