Puerto Rican Drug Bust

CNN reports,  according to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Caribbean Division along with the Justice Department, 158 arrests were made in conjuction with the largest drug and illegal weapons bust in Puerto Rican history.  500 agents and local officals worked to secure the apprehension of drug ring leaders, runners, suppliers and sellers.  This operation will rid the west coast in the small Caribbean Island of the most hard core and major drug traffickers in Puerto Rico. 

The defendants were charged with the attempt to distribute and sell marijuana, crack, cocaine, heroin, as well as, the possession of firearms.  If convicted the defendants could spend up to life in prison and pay fines up to $4 million dollars.  Most of the arrest were made near public housing complexes located near schools and sports facilites.  The area of the arrests is where a major sporting event would be taking place where as many as 300,000 spectators would be in attendance. 

The arrest helped save millions of dollars worth of illegal drugs to be distributed to waiting drug addicts eager to buy, sell and use the harmful substances.  Drug addiction treatment centers are in the fight to help save lives of millions of drug addicts from the drug ring leaders and distributors such as the ones arrested in Puerto Rico.  Drug education and drug rehabilitation centers are available to help you or your loved one fighting to end the cycle of addiction in your life or the life of your loved one. 

Referral specialists are available for confidential assessments and referrals to drug addiction treatment centers in North America and neighboring islands such as in Puerto Rico.  Call today and start your path to healing and recovery from addiction. 

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healthy body

Taking care of one’s body is something that drug users tend to neglect.  There are many adverse effects that take place when one subjects his/her body to the chemicals of drugs.  Here are a few examples of what happens to ones body when not taken care of. 

Lungs on crack

Methamphetamine Use

Heroin users tongue

Alcohol

Cutting yourself

Steroids

Keep your body healthy.   Addiction treatment can help you stop the abuse chemicals in drugs are doing to ones body.

drug abuse

Different drugs have different effects on the physical and mental health of the drug user however, the basic pattern is the same.  For the addict, getting and using drugs becomes the most important aspect of life.  Once trapped in the downward spiral of addiction, the only reality to the addict is how to get more drugs and will go to any extreme in order to attain their “fix” ;  hurting themselves, their families and friends.  What happens with the addicts mentality is they think  they are only hurting themselves, when in fact, the addicted person is taking those most close to him/her along on the downward spiral with them.  Unfazed and unaware of the consequences of their actions, the drug addicted person will lie, cheat, and steal in order to reach and keep that high they are so desperate to achieve.  Thus, the addict will continue striving to reach the bottom.  However, there is help.  Addiction treatment provides education and tools for living a successful drug free life.  Read the signs and notice the symptoms of drug abuse,  and don’t let them continue.  Begin now to embrace the gift of sobriety and find a drug rehabilitation center that will help you and your family discover life again.

War on Drugs

According to the National Institute on Drug Addiction, drug abuse costs Americans, annually, over a trillion dollars in lost productivity which includes health and crime related costs.  This number is staggering to me but not surprising given the fact that drug use is seemingly acceptable behavior among today’s generation.  The real fact is that drug abuse is killing our country.  The epidemic of crystal meth in  rural America, crack and heroin use in urban America and the  easy accessability to perscription medication, denial that help is needed is no longer acceptable.  Families are disintegrating, communities are crippled and people are dying because of the disease of addiction.  There are so many factors that play into why someone becomes addicted to drugs and alcohol; biological, environmental and the stages of development are all influences.

 However, drug addiction is preventable through education and tools used in addiction treatment facilites.  Involvement of family, friends and community,  along with education on the risks of drug abuse, we can help stop  addiction and win our families and communities back.  If you or someone you know is suffering from addiction there is help.  Please do not hesitate to call.  Together we can win this fight.

Crack

Crack and freebase are forms of cocaine made by chemically altering it to a purer, cheaper form suitable for smoking in a pipe. Because of the increase in purity, crack and freebase are more lethal than cocaine, also due to a direct route to the brain via the lungs it is more addictive. Users call it crack for the cracking sound it makes when smoked. Other users call it rock, for its similarity to small chips of stone.

What Are The Effects Of Crack And Freebase?

Inhaled through a pipe, crack and freebase reach the lungs and brain faster than regular cocaine, which must be absorbed in the blood from membrane tissue. Crack and freebase effects are dramatic. The euphoria is greater, the depression more severe. The side effects are even more dangerous, and the chances of dependence are significantly higher. What is Speedball? A Speedball is cocaine/crack mixed with heroin. This highly addictive mixture is emerging as the drug of choice among some abusers. Cocaine users use speedball’s to prevent the depression after they have used cocaine or crack. The result: they become addicted to both cocaine/crack and heroin. 

Addiction treatment is available for those who are suffering from the abuse of cocaine, crack, heroin or any drug that keeps one from being a productive to themselves their family and friends and their community.  If you  or someone you know needs help, our referral specialists will guide you to effective drug rehabilitation where freedom from the cycle of addiction can be discovered.