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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Alaska Treatment Centers

in Alaska

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Drug Facts

  • Stimulants have both medical and non medical recreational uses and long term use can be hazardous to your health.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • 2.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs for the first time, compared to 2.1 million who used marijuana for the first time.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • Cocaine is a highly addictive stimulant made from the coca plant.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Cocaine was first isolated (extracted from coca leaves) in 1859 by German chemist Albert Niemann.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • One in ten high school seniors in the US admits to abusing prescription painkillers.
  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Hydrocodone is used in combination with other chemicals and is available in prescription pain medications as tablets, capsules and syrups.
  • Over 60% of all deaths from overdose are attributed to prescription drug abuse.
  • Younger war veterans (ages 18-25) have a higher likelihood of succumbing to a drug or alcohol addiction.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • Anti-Depressants are often combined with Alcohol, which increases the risk of poisoning and overdose.
  • Dilaudid is 8 times more potent than morphine.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Using Crack Cocaine, even once, can result in life altering addiction.
  • 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.

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