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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Alaska Treatment Centers

in Alaska

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Drug Facts

  • From 1980-2000, modern antidepressants, SSRI and SNRI, were introduced.
  • The phrase 'dope fiend' was originally coined many years ago to describe the negative side effects of constant cocaine use.
  • Rohypnol causes a person to black out or forget what happened to them.
  • Ambien is a sedative-hypnotic known to cause hallucinations, suicidal thoughts and death.
  • PCP (also known as angel dust) can cause drug addiction in the infant as well as tremors.
  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion annually.
  • Nearly 500,000 people each year abuse prescription medications for the first time.
  • There are many types of drug and alcohol rehab available throughout the world.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Alcohol affects the central nervous system, thereby controlling all bodily functions.
  • Heroin is made by collecting sap from the flower of opium poppies.
  • Opioids are depressant drugs, which means they slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the rest of the body.
  • More than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. Next most common are prescription pain relievers, followed by inhalants (which is most common among younger teens).
  • Mixing sedatives such as Ambien with alcohol can be harmful, even leading to death
  • Prescription drug spending increased 9.0% to $324.6 billion in 2015, slower than the 12.4% growth in 2014.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • The sale of painkillers has increased by over 300% since 1999.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.

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