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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • 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.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • 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.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • Authority obtains over 10,500 accounts of clonazepam abuse annually.
  • Ritalin is easy to get, and cheap.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Smoking tobacco can cause a miscarriage or a premature birth.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Steroids can stop growth prematurely and permanently in teenagers who take them.
  • Many people wrongly imprisoned under conspiracy laws are women who did nothing more than pick up a phone and take a message for their spouse, boyfriend, child or neighbor.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.

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