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Alaska Treatment Centers

in Alaska

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Drug Facts

  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • A young German pharmacist called Friedrich Sertrner (1783-1841) had first applied chemical analysis to plant drugs, by purifying in 1805 the main active ingredient of opium
  • Mixing Ambien with alcohol can cause respiratory distress, coma and death.
  • Approximately 13.5 million people worldwide take opium-like substances (opioids), including 9.2 million who use heroin.
  • 50% of teens believe that taking prescription drugs is much safer than using illegal street drugs.
  • There are 2,200 alcohol poisoning deaths in the US each year.
  • Use of amphetamines is increasing among college students. One study across a hundred colleges showed nearly 7% of college students use amphetamines illegally. Over 25% of students reported use in the past year.
  • Synthetic drugs, also referred to as designer or club drugs, are chemically-created in a lab to mimic another drug such as marijuana, cocaine or morphine.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • 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.
  • Sniffing paint is a common form of inhalant abuse.
  • Production and trafficking soared again in the 1990's in relation to organized crime in the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
  • In 2014, Mexican heroin accounted for 79 percent of the total weight of heroin analyzed under the HSP.
  • Even a small amount of Ecstasy can be toxic enough to poison the nervous system and cause irreparable damage.
  • The Canadian government reports that 90% of their mescaline is a combination of PCP and LSD
  • In 2011, over 800,000 Americans reported having an addiction to cocaine.
  • Opioid painkillers produce a short-lived euphoria, but they are also addictive.
  • Deaths from Alcohol poisoning are most common among the ages 35-64.
  • Ritalin and related 'hyperactivity' type drugs can be found almost anywhere.
  • Crack cocaine is one of the most powerful illegal drugs when it comes to producing psychological dependence.

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