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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Predatory drugs are drugs used to gain sexual advantage over the victim they include: Rohypnol (date rape drug), GHB and Ketamine.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • Approximately 122,000 people have admitted to using PCP in the past year.
  • Meth can quickly be made with battery acid, antifreeze and drain cleaner.
  • Amphetamine withdrawal is characterized by severe depression and fatigue.
  • 90% of Americans with a substance abuse problem started smoking marijuana, drinking or using other drugs before age 18.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • 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.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • Teens who have open communication with their parents are half as likely to try drugs, yet only a quarter of adolescents state that they have had conversations with their parents regarding drugs.
  • The most powerful prescription painkillers are called opioids, which are opium-like compounds.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • Ritalin is easy to get, and cheap.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • Only 50 of the 2,500 types of Barbiturates created in the 20th century were employed for medicinal purposes.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • 26.7% of 10th graders reported using Marijuana.

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