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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Hallucinogens (also known as 'psychedelics') can make a person see, hear, smell, feel or taste things that aren't really there or are different from how they are in reality.
  • Crack cocaine goes directly into the lungs because it is mostly smoked, delivering the high almost immediately.
  • One in five adolescents have admitted to abusing inhalants.
  • In 2013, that number increased to 3.5 million children on stimulants.
  • 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.
  • Prescription medications are legal drugs.
  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Stimulants are prescribed in the treatment of obesity.
  • Steroids are often abused by those who want to build muscle mass.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • An estimated 13.5 million people in the world take opioids (opium-like substances), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • 7.5 million have used cocaine at least once in their life, 3.5 million in the last year and 1.5 million in the past month.
  • Twenty-five percent of those who began abusing prescription drugs at age 13 or younger met clinical criteria for addiction sometime in their life.
  • Only 9% of people actually get help for substance use and addiction.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.

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