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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • From 1961-1980 the Anti-Depressant boom hit the market in the United States.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • Decreased access to dopamine often results in symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • Barbiturates can stay in one's system for 2-3 days.
  • Barbituric acid was synthesized by German chemist Adolf von Baeyer in late 1864.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Alprazolam is an addictive sedative used to treat panic and anxiety disorders.
  • Methamphetamine blocks dopamine re-uptake, methamphetamine also increases the release of dopamine, leading to much higher concentrations in the synapse, which can be toxic to nerve terminals.
  • Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • Steroids can be life threatening, even leading to liver damage.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Texas is one of the hardest states on drug offenses.
  • The majority of youths aged 12 to 17 do not perceive a great risk from smoking marijuana.
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • A 2007 survey in the US found that 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Abused by an estimated one in five teens, prescription drugs are second only to alcohol and marijuana as the substances they use to get high.

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