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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Alaska Treatment Centers

in Alaska

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Drug Facts

  • Ketamine has risen by over 300% in the last ten years.
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • Phenobarbital was soon discovered and marketed as well as many other barbituric acid derivatives
  • 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.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Methamphetamine is a synthetic (man-made) chemical, unlike cocaine, for instance, which comes from a plant.
  • Heroin can be a white or brown powder, or a black sticky substance known as black tar heroin.
  • Alcohol poisoning deaths are most common among ages 35-64 years old.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • New scientific research has taught us that the brain doesn't finish developing until the mid-20s, especially the region that controls impulse and judgment.
  • Some effects from of long-acting barbiturates can last up to two days.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • Meperidine (brand name Demerol) and hydromorphone (Dilaudid) come in tablets and propoxyphene (Darvon) in capsules, but all three have been known to be crushed and injected, snorted or smoked.
  • Fentanyl works by binding to the body's opioid receptors, which are found in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
  • Alprazolam is held accountable for about 125,000 emergency-room visits each year.
  • 6.5% of high school seniors smoke pot daily, up from 5.1% five years ago. Meanwhile, less than 20% of 12th graders think occasional use is harmful, while less than 40% see regular use as harmful (lowest numbers since 1983).
  • 37% of people claim that the U.S. is losing ground in the war on prescription drug abuse.
  • The act in 1914 prohibited the import of coca leaves and Cocaine, except for pharmaceutical purposes.
  • The drug was outlawed as a part of the U.S. Drug Abuse and Regulation Control Act of 1970.

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