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Alaska Treatment Centers

in Alaska

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Drug Facts

  • Heroin enters the brain very quickly, making it particularly addictive. It's estimated that almost one-fourth of the people who try heroin become addicted.
  • Peyote is approximately 4000 times less potent than LSD.
  • Over 60% of deaths from drug overdoses are accredited to prescription drugs.
  • 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.
  • LSD (or its full name: lysergic acid diethylamide) is a potent hallucinogen that dramatically alters your thoughts and your perception of reality.
  • Methadone is an opiate agonist that has a series of actions similar to those of heroin and other medications derived from the opium poppy.
  • Over 30 million people abuse Crystal Meth worldwide.
  • Women who had an alcoholic parent are more likely to become an alcoholic than men who have an alcoholic parent.
  • Attempts were made to use heroin in place of morphine due to problems of morphine abuse.
  • Young people have died from dehydration, exhaustion and heart attack as a result of taking too much Ecstasy.
  • Among teens, prescription drugs are the most commonly used drugs next to marijuana, and almost half of the teens abusing prescription drugs are taking painkillers.
  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Ecstasy was originally developed by Merck pharmaceutical company in 1912.
  • Many veterans who are diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) drink or abuse drugs.
  • Cocaine gives the user a feeling of euphoria and energy that lasts approximately two hours.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Adderall is linked to cases of sudden death due to heart complications.
  • Drug addiction and abuse can be linked to at least of all major crimes committed in the United States.
  • Slang Terms for Heroin:Smack, Dope, Junk, Mud, Skag, Brown Sugar, Brown, 'H', Big H, Horse, Charley, China White, Boy, Harry, Mr. Brownstone, Dr. Feelgood
  • Marijuana had the highest rates of dependence out of all illicit substances in 2011.

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