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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Oxycontin is know on the street as the hillbilly heroin.
  • Invisible drugs include coffee, tea, soft drinks, tobacco, beer and wine.
  • Marijuana is actually dangerous, impacting the mind by causing memory loss and reducing ability.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • 26.9 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they engaged in binge drinking in the past month.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Its rock form is far more addictive and potent than its powder form.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Drug overdoses are the cause of 90% of deaths from poisoning.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • 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.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • Morphine was first extracted from opium in a pure form in the early nineteenth century.
  • In the United States, deaths from pain medication abuse are outnumbering deaths from traffic accidents in young adults.
  • Prescription medication should always be taken under the supervision of a doctor, even then, it must be noted that they can be a risk to the unborn child.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Crack Cocaine was first developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970's.
  • In 2005, 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin. 2.2 million abused over-the-counter drugs such as cough syrup. The average age for first-time users is now 13 to 14.

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