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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Alaska Treatment Centers

in Alaska

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Drug Facts

  • 75% of most designer drugs are consumed by adolescents and younger adults.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • Morphine is an extremely strong pain reliever that is commonly used with terminal patients.
  • Steroids can stay in one's system for three weeks if taken orally and up to 3-6 months if injected.
  • Two of the most common long-term effects of heroin addiction are liver failure and heart disease.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • Over 13.5 million people admit to using opiates worldwide.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • In 2003 a total of 4,006 people were admitted to Alaska Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol rehabilitation programs.
  • Over 2.3 million people admitted to have abused Ketamine.
  • Foreign producers now supply much of the U.S. Methamphetamine market, and attempts to bring that production under control have been problematic.
  • Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants.
  • Oxycontin is a prescription pain reliever that can often be used unnecessarily or abused.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • Methadone is a synthetic opioid analgesic (painkiller) used to treat chronic pain.
  • Drugs are divided into several groups, depending on how they are used.
  • Long-term use of painkillers can lead to dependence, even for people who are prescribed them to relieve a medical condition but eventually fall into the trap of abuse and addiction.
  • In 2013, that number increased to 3.5 million children on stimulants.
  • Women who use needles run the risk of acquiring HIV or AIDS, thus passing it on to their unborn child.
  • MDMA (methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic, mind-altering drug that acts both as a stimulant and a hallucinogenic.

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