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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Alaska Treatment Centers

in Alaska

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Drug Facts

  • Drug use is highest among people in their late teens and twenties.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Alcohol kills more young people than all other drugs combined.
  • Cocaine stays in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • People who regularly use heroin often develop a tolerance, which means that they need higher and/or more frequent doses of the drug to get the desired effects.
  • According to the Department of Justice, the top destination in the United States for heroin shipments is the Chicago metro area.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • The most commonly abused brand-name painkillers include Vicodin, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Percocet.
  • Painkillers like morphine contributed to over 300,000 emergency room admissions.
  • Heroin is a drug that is processed from morphine.
  • In 1990, 600,000 children in the U.S. were on stimulant medication for A.D.H.D.
  • Methamphetamine (MA), a variant of amphetamine, was first synthesized in Japan in 1893 by Nagayoshi Nagai from the precursor chemical ephedrine.
  • Depressants, opioids and antidepressants are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and amphetamines (39%) combined
  • LSD disrupts the normal functioning of the brain, making you see images, hear sounds and feel sensations that seem real but aren't.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Heroin belongs to a group of drugs known as 'opioids' that are from the opium poppy.
  • There were approximately 160,000 amphetamine and methamphetamine related emergency room visits in 2011.
  • Cocaine is a stimulant that has been utilized and abused for ages.

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