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Alaska Treatment Centers

in Alaska

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Drug Facts

  • Almost 3 out of 4 prescription overdoses are caused by painkillers. In 2009, 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdoses were caused by methadone.
  • In Hamilton County, 7,300 people were served by street outreach, emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in 2007, according to the Cincinnati/Hamilton County Continuum of Care for the Homeless.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • Narcotics are used for pain relief, medical conditions and illnesses.
  • The United States consumes 80% of the world's pain medication while only having 6% of the world's population.
  • In medical use, there is controversy about whether the health benefits of prescription amphetamines outweigh its risks.
  • Over 1 million people have tried hallucinogens for the fist time this year.
  • Approximately 3% of high school seniors say they have tried heroin at least once in the past year.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • 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.
  • Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug.
  • Marijuana affects hormones in both men and women, leading to sperm reduction, inhibition of ovulation and even causing birth defects in babies exposed to marijuana use before birth.
  • The overall costs of alcohol abuse amount to $224 billion annually, with the costs to the health care system accounting for approximately $25 billion.
  • After marijuana and alcohol, the most common drugs teens are misuing or abusing are prescription medications.3
  • Ecstasy causes hypothermia, which leads to muscle breakdown and could cause kidney failure.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Gang affiliation and drugs go hand in hand.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • The majority of teens (approximately 60%) said they could easily get drugs at school as they were sold, used and kept there.

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