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Milwaukee, Wisconsin has a total of 96 drug rehab listing(s) containing information on alcohol rehab centers, addiction treatment centers, drug treatment programs, and rehabilitation clinics within the city. Contact us if you have a facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and would like to share it in our directory. Additional information about specific Milwaukee listings is available by phoning our toll free rehab helpline at 866-720-3784.

Between 2012 and 2015, 888 residents of Milwaukee County died as a result of an opioid or heroin overdose. This was revealed in a study in March 2016, which aimed to paint a picture of the demographics that are involved with this. For a long time, heroin was seen as a "dirty" drug, that only affected those in extreme poverty. However, it seems that dealers have now started to target other people, including suburban mothers, reason being that many of these people have long been addicted to prescription painkillers, and these are increasingly difficult - and expensive - to get. This lies at the heart of the heroin epidemic that is gripping the nation.

The Milwaukee Picture

The Milwaukee Common Council has described the problem as a "public health epidemic". For this reason, they commissioned a study in relation to heroin. What this showed was that there has been a 500% increase in overdose deaths due to opiates and heroin since 2005. It is hoped that the results of this study will be able to serve as an intervention and to make treatment, including detox and rehab, more accessible and affordable.

The problem with heroin is actually greater than that of homicides. It is also greater than the problem of motor vehicle accidents, even though there is a significant issue with alcohol related incidents on the road as well.

The study was based on a variety of indicators, including some provided by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office, and this demonstrated that heroin kills more young white people than older black people. In fact, the study showed that the average profile of someone dying of a heroin overdose is a 43 year old white male. 60% of all those who die are white males, in fact.

This is something seen across the country, with victims becoming increasingly younger. While this is worrisome, it is also aiding public health and law enforcement officials to put in place appropriate intervention efforts, and to offer addiction treatment that is suitable to its patients' demographic.

The 888 deaths in Milwaukee were spread out across the county. This showed that there isn't an issue with a particular location, but rather that it can happen to anyone, anywhere. Additionally, heroin is no longer a homelessness drug, with 70% of overdoses happening in people's own homes.

As a result of the study, the Milwaukee Common Council has entered into a partnership with the Medical College of Wisconsin. Together, they aim to further study the results of the research, and to use this to create prevention, intervention, and treatment options, including detox and rehab, suitable for the population as a whole. Some of this has already started to take shape, with increasing numbers of treatment centers for substance abuse, whether for drug or alcohol abuse, becoming available and affordable to people who need it. This is also due to the fact that, while heroin is the most pressing problem, older problems such as alcohol abuse and other drug problems continue to exist as well.

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Drug Facts

  • Oxycodone has the greatest potential for abuse and the greatest dangers.
  • Ketamine can be swallowed, snorted or injected.
  • Unintentional deaths by poison were related to prescription drug overdoses in 84% of the poison cases.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Sniffing gasoline is a common form of abusing inhalants and can be lethal.
  • 1 in 5 adolescents have admitted to using tranquilizers for nonmedical purposes.
  • In the 20th Century Barbiturates were Prescribed as sedatives, anesthetics, anxiolytics, and anti-convulsants
  • There is inpatient treatment and outpatient.
  • Drugs and alcohol do not discriminate no matter what your gender, race, age or political affiliation addiction can affect you if you let it.
  • Crystal Meth is the world's second most popular illicit drug.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • The effects of synthetic drug use can include: anxiety, aggressive behavior, paranoia, seizures, loss of consciousness, nausea, vomiting and even coma or death.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • The same year, an Ohio man broke into a stranger's home to decorate for Christmas.
  • Cocaine stays in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Ativan is one of the strongest Benzodiazepines on the market.
  • 60% of High Schoolers, 32% of Middle Schoolers have seen drugs used, kept or sold on school grounds.
  • Methamphetamine is a white crystalline drug that people take by snorting it (inhaling through the nose), smoking it or injecting it with a needle.

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