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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Marijuana is also known as cannabis because of the plant it comes from.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Ecstasy increases levels of several chemicals in the brain, including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. It alters your mood and makes you feel closer and more connected to others.
  • Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 1825 in the past decade
  • In its purest form, heroin is a fine white powder
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Rohypnol has no odor or taste so it can be put into someone's drink without being detected, which has lead to it being called the "Date Rape Drug".
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • Adolf von Baeyer, the creator of barbiturates, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1905 for his work in in chemical research.
  • Predatory drugs metabolize quickly so that they are not in the system when the victim is medically examined.
  • A study by UCLA revealed that methamphetamines release nearly 4 times as much dopamine as cocaine, which means the substance is much more addictive.
  • Ketamine is actually a tranquilizer most commonly used in veterinary practice on animals.
  • Drug use can hamper the prenatal growth of the fetus, which occurs after the organ formation.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Nearly one third of mushroom users reported heightened levels of anxiety.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.

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