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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).
  • Ativan is one of the strongest Benzodiazepines on the market.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Alcohol Abuse is the 3rd leading cause of preventable deaths in the U.S with over 88,000 cases of Alcohol related deaths.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.
  • One of the strongest forms of Amphetamines is Meth, which can come in powder, tablet or crystal form.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • Cocaine only has an effect on a person for about an hour, which will lead a person to have to use cocaine many times through out the day.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Other names of ecstasy include Eckies, E, XTC, pills, pingers, bikkies, flippers, and molly.
  • Afghanistan is the leading producer and cultivator of opium worldwide and manufactures 74% of illicit opiates. However, Mexico is the leading supplier to the U.S
  • According to some studies done by two Harvard psychiatrists, Dr. Harrison Pope and Kurt Brower, long term Steroid abuse can mimic symptoms of Bipolar Disorder.
  • During this time, Anti-Depressant use among all ages increased by almost 400 percent.
  • The most prominent drugs being abused in Alabama and requiring rehabilitation were Marijuana, Alcohol and Cocaine in 2006 5,927 people were admitted for Marijuana, 3,446 for Alcohol and an additional 2,557 admissions for Cocaine and Crack.

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