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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • 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.
  • Ecstasy can cause you to drink too much water when not needed, which upsets the salt balance in your body.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • Ambien is a sedative-hypnotic known to cause hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and death.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • Snorting drugs can create loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, frequent runny nose, and problems with swallowing.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • In the course of the 20th century, more than 2500 barbiturates were synthesized, 50 of which were eventually employed clinically.
  • Many veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) drink or abuse drugs.
  • 52 Million Americans have abused prescription medications.
  • Many who overdose on barbiturates display symptoms of being drunk, such as slurred speech and uncoordinated movements.
  • Increased or prolonged use of methamphetamine can cause sleeplessness, loss of appetite, increased blood pressure, paranoia, psychosis, aggression, disordered thinking, extreme mood swings and sometimes hallucinations.
  • Methadone came about during WW2 due to a shortage of morphine.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Children under 16 who abuse prescription drugs are at greater risk of getting addicted later in life.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana.

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