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Alaska Treatment Centers

in Alaska

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Drug Facts

  • After time, a heroin user's sense of smell and taste become numb and may disappear.
  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Inhalants are sniffed or breathed in where they are absorbed quickly by the lungs, this is commonly referred to as "huffing" or "bagging".
  • Over 90% of those with an addiction began drinking, smoking or using illicit drugs before the age of 18.
  • Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • Ritalin can cause aggression, psychosis and an irregular heartbeat that can lead to death.
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • Cocaine restricts blood flow to the brain, increases heart rate, and promotes blood clotting. These effects can lead to stroke or heart attack.
  • Approximately 1,800 people 12 and older tried cocaine for the first time in 2011.
  • In 2010, U.S. Poison Control Centers received 304 calls regarding Bath Salts.
  • 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.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • Ketamine is popular at dance clubs and "raves", unfortunately, some people (usually female) are not aware they have been dosed.
  • 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.
  • There were over 1.8 million Americans 12 or older who used a hallucinogen or inhalant for the first time. (1.1 million among hallucinogens)
  • Crack cocaine is the crystal form of cocaine, which normally comes in a powder form.
  • Drug addiction and abuse can be linked to at least of all major crimes committed in the United States.
  • Nearly 6,700 people each day abused a psychotropic medication for the first time.
  • Prescription opioid pain medicines such as OxyContin and Vicodin have effects similar to heroin.
  • Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.

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