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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

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Drug Facts

  • Opiate-based drugs have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Ecstasy increases levels of several chemicals in the brain, including serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. It alters your mood and makes you feel closer and more connected to others.
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • A tweaker can appear normal - eyes clear, speech concise, and movements brisk; however, a closer look will reveal that the person's eyes are moving ten times faster than normal, the voice has a slight quiver, and movements are quick and jerky.
  • Drug abuse and addiction is a chronic, relapsing, compulsive disease that often requires formal treatment, and may call for multiple courses of treatment.
  • Prolonged use of cocaine can cause ulcers in the nostrils.
  • Illegal drugs include cocaine, crack, marijuana, LSD and heroin.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription drug abuse have risen by over 130% over the last five years.
  • GHB is usually ingested in liquid form and is most similar to a high dosage of alcohol in its effect.
  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous and potent drugs, with the great potential of causing seizures and heart-related injuries such as stopping the heart, whether one is a short term or long term user.
  • One in five teens (20%) who have abused prescription drugs did so before the age of 14.2
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Ritalin is easy to get, and cheap.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • In the 1950s, methamphetamine was prescribed as a diet aid and to fight depression.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.

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