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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • Stimulants can increase energy and enhance self esteem.
  • For every dollar that you spend on treatment of substance abuse in the criminal justice system, it saves society on average four dollars.
  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • 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.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • An estimated 20 percent of U.S. college students are afflicted with Alcoholism.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • 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.
  • Deaths related to painkillers have risen by over 180% over the last ten years.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.

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