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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • A biochemical abnormality in the liver forms in 80 percent of Steroid users.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers.
  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Ritalin is easy to get, and cheap.
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • Use of illicit drugs or misuse of prescription drugs can make driving a car unsafejust like driving after drinking alcohol.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • More than9 in 10people who used heroin also used at least one other drug.
  • When abused orally, side effects can include slurred speech, seizures, delirium and vertigo.
  • 2.3% of eighth graders, 5.2% of tenth graders and 6.5% of twelfth graders had tried Ecstasy at least once.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.
  • 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.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine.

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