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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • About 16 million individuals currently abuse prescription medications
  • A person can overdose on heroin. Naloxone is a medicine that can treat a heroin overdose when given right away.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • Nicotine stays in the system for 1-2 days.
  • Ativan, a known Benzodiazepine, was first marketed in 1977 as an anti-anxiety drug.
  • 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.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Over 23,000 emergency room visits in 2006 were attributed to Ativan abuse.
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Barbiturates have been used for depression and even by vets for animal anesthesia yet people take them in order to relax and for insomnia.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Barbiturate Overdose is known to result in Pneumonia, severe muscle damage, coma and death.
  • 3.8% of twelfth graders reported having used Ritalin without a prescription at least once in the past year.
  • In the early 1900s snorting Cocaine was popular, until the drug was banned by the Harrison Act in 1914.
  • Psychic side effects of hallucinogens include the disassociation of time and space.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • In 2012, Ambien was prescribed 43.8 million times in the United States.
  • In 2013, that number increased to 3.5 million children on stimulants.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.

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