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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.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Withdrawal from methadone is often even more difficult than withdrawal from heroin.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • 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.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Crack cocaine is one of the most powerful illegal drugs when it comes to producing psychological dependence.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • 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.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • Methamphetamine has many nicknamesmeth, crank, chalk or speed being the most common.
  • Two thirds of the people who abuse drugs or alcohol admit to being sexually molested when they were children.
  • 1 in 5 college students admitted to have abused prescription stimulants like dexedrine.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.

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