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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • While the use of many street drugs is on a slight decline in the US, abuse of prescription drugs is growing.
  • Synthetic drug stimulants, also known as cathinones, mimic the effects of ecstasy or MDMA. Bath salts and Molly are examples of synthetic cathinones.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • Bath Salts attributed to approximately 22,000 ER visits in 2011.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • 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.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Ativan abuse often results in dizziness, hallucinations, weakness, depression and poor motor coordination.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Alcohol is a sedative.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • 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
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • Marijuana is the most common illicit drug used for the first time. Approximately 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every day.
  • Approximately 122,000 people have admitted to using PCP in the past year.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • Meth can quickly be made with battery acid, antifreeze and drain cleaner.

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