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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Drug conspiracy laws were set up to win the war on drugs.
  • 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.
  • Over half of the people abusing prescribed drugs got them from a friend or relative. Over 17% were prescribed the medication.
  • One oxycodone pill can cost $80 on the street, compared to $3 to $5 for a bag of heroin. As addiction intensifies, many users end up turning to heroin.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • Narcotics are sometimes necessary to treat both psychological and physical ailments but the use of any narcotic can become habitual or a dependency.
  • Adderall is a Schedule II controlled substance, meaning that it has a high potential for addiction.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Studies in 2013 show that over 1.7 million Americans reported using tranquilizers like Ativan for non-medical reasons.
  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.
  • Drug addiction and abuse costs the American taxpayers an average of $484 billion each year.
  • 88% of people using anti-psychotics are also abusing other substances.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • The effects of heroin can last three to four hours.
  • The United States represents 5% of the world's population and 75% of prescription drugs taken. 60% of teens who abuse prescription drugs get them free from friends and relatives.

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