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  • Drug Overdose Facts
  • Higher rates of marijuana use among high school aged youth in the U.S. can be attributed in part to the current public atmosphere of debates which are primarily aimed at the legalization of marijuana in the country.
  • Crack use often results in bizarre and violent behavior, extreme anxiety and restlessness, spasms, delusions, alertness and watchfulness, impaired judgment, feelings of grandiosity, impulsiveness, compulsively repeated acts, hyper-sexuality, and atypical sexual behavior.
  • Cocaine in its hydrochloride salt form may be injected; swallowed; applied to oral, vaginal, or even rectal mucous membranes; or mixed with liquor. Cocaine is most commonly used by snorting or sniffing.
  • There are a broad range of overdose victims throughout the United States; these individuals can range from teens that pop pills to get high to middle-aged workers who must take prescription pain medications for a strained back and inadvertently become physically addicted to the drugs.
  • During 2008, there were 1,476 Federal offenders sentenced for heroin-related charges in U.S. Courts.
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Detoxification

Detoxification is normally the very first step in getting off drugs. It allows an individual to be in a supervised environment while they go through withdrawal symptoms for drugs and/or alcohol. There are diverse types of detoxification. Theyvary from drug-free to medically supervised. A prevalent mistake that a lot of addicts make is to assume that detox is sufficient to kick their habit. This is rarely the case. All detox does is get an individual through the withdrawal when they stop using. It is always recommended that detox be followed up with some type of treatment plan to learn the root of why a person was using drugs in the first place.

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