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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • Krododil users rarely live more than one year after taking it.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Prescription medication should always be taken under the supervision of a doctor, even then, it must be noted that they can be a risk to the unborn child.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • Inhalants go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, and are quickly distributed to the brain and other organs in the body.
  • Crack users may experience severe respiratory problems, including coughing, shortness of breath, lung damage and bleeding.
  • Around 16 million people at this time are abusing prescription medications.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • Hallucinogen rates have risen by over 30% over the past twenty years.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five 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.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • Street names for fentanyl or for fentanyl-laced heroin include Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash.
  • In 2014, over 354,000 U.S. citizens were daily users of Crack.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.

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