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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Almost 1 in every 4 teens in America say they have misused or abused a prescription drug.3
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • 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.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Ritalin and related 'hyperactivity' type drugs can be found almost anywhere.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • Some designer drugs have risen by 80% within a single year.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.
  • Approximately 35,000,000 Americans a year have been admitted into the hospital due abusing medications like Darvocet.
  • Alcohol increases birth defects in babies known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
  • Women born after World War 2 were more inclined to become alcoholics than those born before 1943.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Women who drink have more health and social problems than men who drink
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Ritalin comes in small pills, about the size and shape of aspirin tablets, with the word 'Ciba' (the manufacturer's name) stamped on it.
  • Morphine subdues pain for an average of 5-6 hours whereas methadone subdues pain for up to 24 hours.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Marijuana is actually dangerous, impacting the mind by causing memory loss and reducing ability.

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