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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Meth causes severe paranoia episodes such as hallucinations and delusions.
  • Girls seem to become addicted to nicotine faster than boys do.
  • Crack Cocaine is the riskiest form of a Cocaine substance.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Nearly half (49%) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • LSD can stay in one's system from a few hours to five days.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Powder cocaine is a hydrochloride salt derived from processed extracts of the leaves of the coca plant. 'Crack' is a type of processed cocaine that is formed into a rock-like crystal.
  • The United States spends over 560 Billion Dollars for pain relief.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • More than 29 percent of teens in treatment are dependent on tranquilizers, sedatives, amphetamines, and other stimulants (all types of prescription drugs).

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