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Alaska Treatment Centers

in Alaska

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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.
  • Amphetamines are generally swallowed, injected or smoked. They are also snorted.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • 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.
  • Illicit drug use is estimated to cost $193 billion a year with $11 billion just in healthcare costs alone.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Depressants are highly addictive drugs, and when chronic users or abusers stop taking them, they can experience severe withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety, insomnia and muscle tremors.
  • 7.6% of teens use the prescription drug Aderall.
  • The strongest risk for heroin addiction is addiction to opioid painkillers.
  • Nearly 23 Million people are in need of treatment for chemical dependency.
  • Underage Drinking: Alcohol use by anyone under the age of 21. In the United States, the legal drinking age is 21.
  • There are programs for alcohol addiction.
  • Drinking behavior in women differentiates according to their age; many resemble the pattern of their husbands, single friends or married friends, whichever is closest to their own lifestyle and age.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • Women are at a higher risk than men for liver damage, brain damage and heart damage due to alcohol intake.
  • Coca is one of the oldest, most potent and most dangerous stimulants of natural origin.
  • Invisible drugs include coffee, tea, soft drinks, tobacco, beer and wine.
  • 1/3 of teenagers who live in states with medical marijuana laws get their pot from other people's prescriptions.
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.

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