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Louisiana Treatment Centers

in Louisiana

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Drug Facts

  • In treatment, the drug abuser is taught to break old patterns of behavior, action and thinking. All While learning new skills for avoiding drug use and criminal behavior.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
  • Opiates, mainly heroin, account for 18% of the admissions for drug and alcohol treatment in the US.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • Amphetamines have been used to treat fatigue, migraines, depression, alcoholism, epilepsy and schizophrenia.
  • 70% to 80% of the world's cocaine comes from Columbia.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • 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.
  • In 2007 The California Department of Toxic Substance Control was responsible for clandestine meth lab cleanup costs in Butte County totaling $26,876.00.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • In 2008, the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized about 700 Oxycontin tablets that had been diverted for illegal use, said task force commander Lt. Lorelei Thompson.
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • Cocaine is also the most common drug found in addition to alcohol in alcohol-related emergency room visits.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • 86.4 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime.

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