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Alaska Treatment Centers

in Alaska

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Drug Facts

  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • 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.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • The Barbituric acid compound was made from malonic apple acid and animal urea.
  • Rohypnol causes a person to black out or forget what happened to them.
  • Alcoholism has been found to be genetically inherited in some families.
  • Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent.
  • Krokodil is named for the crocodile-like appearance it creates on the skin. Over time, it damages blood vessels and causes the skin to become green and scaly. The tissue damage can lead to gangrene and result in amputation or death.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Narcotics is the legal term for mood altering drugs.
  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Cocaine use can lead to death from respiratory (breathing) failure, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) or heart attack.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Nationally, illicit drug use has more than doubled among 50-59-year-old since 2002
  • 90% of people are exposed to illegal substance before the age of 18.
  • Amphetamines are stimulant drugs, which means they speed up the messages travelling between the brain and the body.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • Dual Diagnosis treatment is specially designed for those suffering from an addiction as well as an underlying mental health issue.
  • In 2011, non-medical use of Alprazolam resulted in 123,744 emergency room visits.

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