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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Approximately 28% of teens know at least one person who has used Ecstasy, with 17% knowing more than one person who has tried it.
  • Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from processed extracts of the leaves of the coca plant. 'Crack' is a type of processed cocaine that is formed into a rock-like crystal.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Ecstasy speeds up heart rate and blood pressure and disrupts the brain's ability to regulate body temperature, which can result in overheating to the point of hyperthermia.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • Illicit drug use costs the United States approximately $181 billion annually.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • K2 and Spice are synthetic marijuana compounds, also known as cannabinoids.
  • The penalties for drug offenses vary from state to state.
  • Drug use can interfere with the healthy birth of a baby.
  • Ritalin is the common name for methylphenidate, classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule II narcoticthe same classification as cocaine, morphine and amphetamines.
  • Other psychological symptoms include manic behavior, psychosis (losing touch with reality) and aggression, commonly known as 'Roid Rage'.
  • Psychic side effects of hallucinogens include the disassociation of time and space.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • Cocaine increases levels of the natural chemical messenger dopamine in brain circuits controlling pleasure and movement.

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