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Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

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Drug Facts

  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Mushrooms (Psilocybin) (AKA: Simple Simon, shrooms, silly putty, sherms, musk, boomers): psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical found in approximately 190 species of edible mushrooms.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • 3.3% of 12- to 17-year-olds and 6% of 17- to 25-year-olds had abused prescription drugs in the past month.
  • Some common street names for Amphetamines include: speed, uppers, black mollies, blue mollies, Benz and wake ups.
  • Oxycodone use specifically has escalated by over 240% over the last five years.
  • Over 60% of teens report that drugs of some kind are kept, sold, and used at their school.
  • 193,717 people were admitted to Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs in California in 2006.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous stimulants of natural origin.
  • Studies in 2013 show that over 1.7 million Americans reported using tranquilizers like Ativan for non-medical reasons.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • In Alabama during the year 2006 a total of 20,340 people were admitted to Drug rehab or Alcohol rehab programs.
  • Snorting drugs can create loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, frequent runny nose, and problems with swallowing.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • High doses of Ritalin lead to similar symptoms such as other stimulant abuse, including tremors and muscle twitching, paranoia, and a sensation of bugs or worms crawling under the skin.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.

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