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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Methamphetamine usually comes in the form of a crystalline white powder that is odorless, bitter-tasting and dissolves easily in water or alcohol.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • LSD disrupts the normal functioning of the brain, making you see images, hear sounds and feel sensations that seem real but aren't.
  • Over 5% of 12th graders have used cocaine and over 2% have used crack.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • 60% of teens who have abused prescription painkillers did so before age 15.
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • The United States produces on average 300 tons of barbiturates per year.
  • Opiates are medicines made from opium, which occurs naturally in poppy plants.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • Marijuana is known as the "gateway" drug for a reason: those who use it often move on to other drugs that are even more potent and dangerous.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • Within the last ten years' rates of Demerol abuse have risen by nearly 200%.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.

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