TEXAS TEENS AND "CHEESE" (HEROIN) DRUG USE AND ABUSE

Texas Teen Drug and Alcohol Abuse Facts

According to a Dallas Morning News analysis of toxicology reports from the Dallas County medical examiner's office, from 2005 through 2009, 30 teens 18 and under died from cheese heroin overdose. As no deaths have been made public since then and there is no agency to keep track of heroin overdose deaths, we can’t provide you with recent data.

Data compiled by Dr. Jane C. Maxwell, senior research scientist for the Addiction Research Institute at the University of Texas at Austin says that the number of North Texas teens seeking treatment for heroin addiction in government-funded facilities has remained steady. Teens from Dallas County made up the majority of heroin addiction admissions statewide.

In response to several cheese heroin fatal overdoses Dallas County started a cheese task force in 2007. Since then the group has expanded its focus to include other drugs.

Executive Director Debbie Meripolski of the Greater Dallas Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse says: "I think a lot of people think it's gone away because it's not on the front page of the newspaper," Meripolski said. "But it's still out there."

As local drug addiction treatment centers in Dallas are scrambling to meet the demand of parents seeking treatment for their teens you may find Inspirations Teen Rehab your alternative of addiction treatment for your teen.

Inspirations teen rehab treatment center focuses on all aspects of teen behavioral issues. Family is the cornerstone of Inspirations’ treatment center. Teens attending Inspirations’ are using or abusing drugs, often beginning with but not limited to marijuana. Drug use becomes drug abuse and eventually leads to drug addiction. Drugs combined with behaviors that demonstrate disrespect for parents, home rules, boundaries, and lack of accountability for actions, are typically an explosive combination that leads to significant and sometimes irreversible consequences.

Inspirations designed a treatment center and treatment programs that provide addiction prevention, as well as treatment and aftercare services. For those teens that have moved beyond drug abuse, Inspirations’ teen drug rehab provides recovery that meets teenagers at their place in life. In designing our teen addiction treatment programs, emphasis has been put on helping the teen and family establish recovery and learn the life skills necessary for the teen reach personal goals, academic goals, gain the insight and ability to hold one’s self accountable for decisions and actions, as well as capable of making appropriate choices, living a life without drugs or alcohol impairment. See our commercial at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koJ5QImBOgo

If you have any questions, please know that we are here to provide you with support and guidance, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We welcome the opportunity to answer your questions free of charge about teen behavior, substance use, adolescent addiction, teen drug rehab, or other related matters. If you would prefer, please fill out our short form and one of our counselors will respond.