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Cocaine Use in Georgia Over a One Year Period (Annual Averages Based on 2002 and 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health):

  • In Georgia it was estimated on a survey-weighted hierarchical Bayes estimation approach that the total number of cocaine users in a one year period was 170,000.
    • An estimated 13,000 of the cocaine users in Georgia over a one year period were between the ages of 12-17 years old.
    • An estimated 50,000 of the cocaine users in Georgia over a one year period were between the ages of 18-25 years old.
    • An estimated 108,000 of the cocaine users in Georgia over a one year period were 26 or older.
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As with abusers of any addictive drug, heroin abusers gradually spend more and more time and energy obtaining and using the drug. Once they are addicted, the heroin abusers' primary purpose in life becomes seeking and using drugs. The drugs literally change their brains and their behavior.
From 1898 through to 1910 heroin was marketed as a non-addictive morphine substitute and cough suppressant. Bayer marketed heroin as a cure for morphine addiction before it was discovered that heroin is rapidly metabolized into morphine, and as such, "heroin" was basically only a quicker acting form of morphine. The company was somewhat embarrassed by this new finding and it became a historical blunder for Bayer.
Often these heroin users are under the misconception that if they do not inject the drug they will not become addicted. Those who have entered rehab to recover from heroin addiction include every method of heroin user. Annual admissions to substance abuse treatment for primary heroin abuse increased from 228,000 in 1995 to 254,000 in 2005; however, the proportion of primary heroin admissions remained steady at about 14 to 15 percent of all admissions. Between 1995 and 2005, inhalation and injection accounted for at least 94 percent of annual primary heroin admissions.

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