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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Ironically, young teens in small towns are more likely to use crystal meth than teens raised in the city.
  • Amphetamines + some antidepressants: elevated blood pressure, which can lead to irregular heartbeat, heart failure and stroke.
  • Methamphetamine is an illegal drug in the same class as cocaine and other powerful street drugs.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • 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.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • The effects of ecstasy are usually felt about 20 minutes to an hour after it's taken and last for around 6 hours.
  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • A stimulant is a drug that provides users with added energy and contentment.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • 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.
  • Bath Salt use has been linked to violent behavior, however not all stories are violent.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Foreign producers now supply much of the U.S. Methamphetamine market, and attempts to bring that production under control have been problematic.
  • The Canadian government reports that 90% of their mescaline is a combination of PCP and LSD
  • 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
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.

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