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Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Alaska Treatment Centers

in Alaska

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Drug Facts

  • National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported 153,000 current heroin users in the US.
  • The largest amount of illicit drug-related emergency room visits in 2011 were cocaine related (over 500,000 visits).
  • In 2012, nearly 2.5 million individuals abused prescription drugs for the first time.
  • More teens die from prescription drugs than heroin/cocaine combined.
  • The New Hampshire Department of Corrections reports 85 percent of inmates arrive at the state prison with a history of substance abuse.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • 92% of those who begin using Ecstasy later turn to other drugs including marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and heroin.
  • Cocaine was originally used for its medical effects and was first introduced as a surgical anesthetic.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • According to the latest drug information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug abuse costs the United States over $600 billion annually in health care treatments, lost productivity, and crime.
  • Those who have become addicted to heroin and stop using the drug abruptly may have severe withdrawal.
  • Methamphetamine is taken orally, smoked, snorted, or dissolved in water or alcohol and injected.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • LSD disrupts the normal functioning of the brain, making you see images, hear sounds and feel sensations that seem real but aren't.
  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • In Connecticut overdoses have claimed at least eight lives of high school and college-age students in communities large and small in 2008.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Alcohol can stay in one's system from one to twelve hours.
  • Smokeless nicotine based quit smoking aids also stay in the system for 1-2 days.

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