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Alaska Treatment Centers

in Alaska

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Drug Facts

  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Most people use drugs for the first time when they are teenagers. There were just over 2.8 million new users (initiates) of illicit drugs in 2012, or about 7,898 new users per day. Half (52 per-cent) were under 18.
  • Today, teens are 10 times more likely to use Steroids than in 1991.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Research suggests that misuse of prescription opioid pain medicine is a risk factor for starting heroin use.
  • Heroin is a 'downer,' which means it's a depressant that slows messages traveling between the brain and body.
  • Women in college who drank experienced higher levels of sexual aggression acts from men.
  • Because it is smoked, the effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine.
  • 30,000 people may depend on over the counter drugs containing codeine, with middle-aged women most at risk, showing that "addiction to over-the-counter painkillers is becoming a serious problem.
  • In 2014, over 354,000 U.S. citizens were daily users of Crack.
  • In 1898 a German chemical company launched a new medicine called Heroin'
  • Tweaking makes achieving the original high difficult, causing frustration and unstable behavior in the user.
  • From 1992 to 2003, teen abuse of prescription drugs jumped 212 percent nationally, nearly three times the increase of misuse among other adults.
  • Those who complete prison-based treatment and continue with treatment in the community have the best outcomes.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • Over 4 million people have used oxycontin for nonmedical purposes.
  • Stimulants such as caffeine can be found in coffee, tea and most soft drinks.
  • Women abuse alcohol and drugs for different reasons than men do.
  • 93% of the world's opium supply came from Afghanistan.
  • Methadone can stay in a person's system for 1- 14 days.

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