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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Emergency room admissions due to Subutex abuse has risen by over 200% in just three years.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • In 2010, around 13 million people have abused methamphetamines in their life and approximately 350,000 people were regular users. This number increased by over 80,000 the following year.
  • Ketamine is considered a predatory drug used in connection with sexual assault.
  • Ecstasy is one of the most popular drugs among youth today.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • Individuals with severe drug problems and or underlying mental health issues typically need longer in-patient drug treatment often times a minimum of 3 months is recommended.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Smokers who continuously smoke will always have nicotine in their system.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • By survey, almost 50% of teens believe that prescription drugs are much safer than illegal street drugs60% to 70% say that home medicine cabinets are their source of drugs.

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