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Mississippi Treatment Centers

in Mississippi

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Drug Facts

  • Crack comes in solid blocks or crystals varying in color from yellow to pale rose or white.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • Rates of Opiate-based drug abuse have risen by over 80% in less than four years.
  • 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.
  • Each year, nearly 360,000 people received treatment specifically for stimulant addiction.
  • The most prominent drugs being abused in Alabama and requiring rehabilitation were Marijuana, Alcohol and Cocaine in 2006 5,927 people were admitted for Marijuana, 3,446 for Alcohol and an additional 2,557 admissions for Cocaine and Crack.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • When a person uses cocaine there are five new neural pathways created in the brain directly associated with addiction.
  • Used illicitly, stimulants can lead to delirium and paranoia.
  • The coca leaf is mainly located in South America and its consumption has dated back to 3000 BC.
  • Methadone is commonly used in the withdrawal phase from heroin.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Smokers who continuously smoke will always have nicotine in their system.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • Heroin is manufactured from opium poppies cultivated in four primary source areas: South America, Southeast and Southwest Asia, and Mexico.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Effective drug abuse treatment engages participants in a therapeutic process, retains them in treatment for a suitable length of time, and helps them to maintain abstinence over time.
  • In Arizona during the year 2006 a total of 23,656 people were admitted to addiction treatment programs.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.

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