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Alaska Treatment Centers

in Alaska

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Drug Facts

  • In Utah, more than 95,000 adults and youths need substance-abuse treatment services, according to the Utah Division of Substance and Mental Health 2007 annual report.
  • 4.4 million teenagers (aged 12 to 17) in the US admitted to taking prescription painkillers, and 2.3 million took a prescription stimulant such as Ritalin.
  • Over 550,000 high school students abuse anabolic steroids every year.
  • Heroin creates both a physical and psychological dependence.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant drug, which means that it speeds up the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • Of the 500 metric tons of methamphetamine produced, only 4 tons is legally produced for legal medical use.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • 2.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs for the first time, compared to 2.1 million who used marijuana for the first time.
  • Adderall originally came about by accident.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • In 2013, that number increased to 3.5 million children on stimulants.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • By the 8th grade, 28% of adolescents have consumed alcohol, 15% have smoked cigarettes, and 16.5% have used marijuana.
  • Benzodiazepines are depressants that act as hypnotics in large doses, anxiolytics in moderate dosages and sedatives in low doses.
  • There have been over 1.2 million people admitting to using using methamphetamine within the past year.
  • High dosages of ketamine can lead to the feeling of an out of body experience or even death.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • These physical signs are more difficult to identify if the tweaker has been using a depressant such as alcohol; however, if the tweaker has been using a depressant, his or her negative feelings - including paranoia and frustration - can increase substantially.

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