Drug Addiction and/or Alcoholism is not something most people can over come by themselves. A Alcohol Rehab and Drug Rehab Center is usually the best opportunity individuals have to beat drug and/or alcohol addiction and get their lives back on track. Some things to look for when deciding on a Drug Rehab and Alcohol Rehab Facility are:
- Does the Drug Treatment and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center have proper credentials?
- How much does a Drug Treatment and Alcoholism Treatment Program cost?
- What is the success rate of the Alcohol Rehabilitation and Drug Treatment Facility in question?
Many people find that speaking to a counselor or Registered Addiction Specialist is extremely helpful when deciding on a Alcohol Rehab and Drug Rehabilitation Facility. Drug Counselors in Maine are a good source of information for figuring out what the best treatment option is for an individual. They are familiar with many of the programs in Maine and can increase your chances of getting into the correct Drug Treatment and Alcohol Rehab Program that will best address your treatment needs.
If you would like to speak with a Registered Addiction Specialist regarding Drug Rehabilitation and Alcohol Treatment Centers in Maine, call our toll-free number and one of our drug counselors will assist you in finding a Drug Rehab and Alcoholism Treatment Center. You can also fill out our form if you would like an Addiction Specialist to contact you directly and help you or your loved one find the appropriate Alcohol Treatment and Drug Rehabilitation Center.
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The primary drug of abuse in Maine is marijuana. It is locally grown and also imported from Canada, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. Nevertheless, the use and availability of cocaine, heroin, and diverted pharmaceuticals continues to be problematic. Methamphetamine remains a minor concern; however, law enforcement sources in the northeastern portion of Aroostook County continue to report the availability and abuse of Canadian-produced “Yaba” tablets and “Enhanced Ecstasy” along the Canadian and United States border.
A significant potential exists for methamphetamine production and distribution in the state. Interstate 95 provides an important north-south transportation route for traffickers traveling to sources of supply in several northeastern Massachusetts cities. Maine’s 228 miles of coastline and 3,478 miles of shoreline offer ample opportunities for smugglers.
Maine has numerous drug and alcohol treatment programs that help people recover from addiction each and every day. It was once thought that addicts have to hit rock bottom before they can get better. This is not true! Recovery can begin at any point in the addiction process—and the earlier, the better. The longer drug abuse continues, the stronger the addiction becomes and the harder it is to treat. Don’t wait to intervene until the addict has lost it all.
Please keep in mind, treatment doesn’t have to be voluntary to be successful. People who are pressured into treatment by their family, employer, or the legal system are just as likely to benefit as those who choose to enter treatment on their own. As they sober up and their thinking clears, many formerly resistant addicts decide they want to change.
2006-2007 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health:
Below is a table with data pertaining to the Selected Drug Use, Perceptions of Great Risk, Average Annual Marijuana Initiates, Past Year Substance Dependence or Abuse, Needing But Not Receiving Treatment, Serious Psychological Distress, and Having at Least One Major Depressive, by Age Group: Estimated Numbers (in Thousands), Annual Averages Based on 2006-2007 NSDUHs
| ILLICIT DRUGS |
Age 12+ |
Age 12-17 |
Age 18-25 |
Age 26+ |
Age 18+ |
| Past Month Illicit Drug Use | 108 | 13 | 36 | 60 | 95 |
| Past Year Marijuana Use | 143 | 17 | 50 | 75 | 125 |
| Past Month Marijuana Use | 94 | 10 | 34 | 50 | 83 |
| Past Month Use of Illicit Drugs Other Than Marijuana | 37 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 32 |
| Past Year Cocaine Use | 25 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 24 |
| Past Year Nonmedical Pain Reliever Use | 52 | 7 | 18 | 27 | 45 |
| Perception of Great Risk of Smoking Marijuana Once a Month | 358 | 31 | 18 | 309 | 326 |
| Average Annual Number of Marijuana Initiates | 12 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| ALCOHOL | |||||
| Past Month Alcohol Use | 600 | 19 | 85 | 497 | 582 |
| Past Month Binge Alcohol Use | 261 | 11 | 59 | 190 | 249 |
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Perception of Great Risk of Drinking Five or More Drinks Once or Twice a Week |
445 | 37 | 30 | 378 | 408 |
| Past Month Alcohol Use (Persons Aged 12 to 20) | 48 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Past Month Binge Alcohol Use (Persons Aged 12 to 20) | 34 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| TOBACCO PRODUCTS | |||||
| Past Month Tobacco Product Use | 347 | 14 | 60 | 273 | 333 |
| Past Month Cigarette Use | 304 | 12 | 55 | 237 | 292 |
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Perception of Great Risk of Smoking One or More Packs of Cigarettes Per Day |
819 | 72 | 86 | 661 | 746 |
| PAST YEAR DEPENDENCE, .USE, AND TREATMENT | |||||
| Illicit Drug Dependence | 22 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 19 |
| Illicit Drug Dependence or Abuse | 34 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 29 |
| Alcohol Dependence | 38 | 2 | 11 | 25 | 36 |
| Alcohol Dependence or Abuse | 85 | 6 | 25 | 54 | 78 |
| Alcohol or Illicit Drug Dependence or Abuse | 111 | 10 | 32 | 69 | 101 |
| Needing But Not Receiving Treatment for Illicit Drug Use | 32 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 27 |
| Needing But Not Receiving Treatment for Alcohol Use | 81 | 6 | 24 | 51 | 75 |
| SERIOUS PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS | -- | -- | 26 | 102 | 128 |
| HAVING AT LEAST ONE MAJOR DEPRESSIVE EPISODE | -- | 9 | 14 | 78 | 92 |
Maine Drug Use and Drug-Related Crime
- During 2007, there were 19 homicide arrests in Maine.
- There were 1,138 total adult arrests for drug sale/manufacturing in Maine during 2006.
- According to 2005-2006 data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), approximately 113,000 (10%) of Maine citizens (ages 12 or older) reported past month use of an illicit drug.
- During 2007, there were 15,582 drug/alcohol treatment admissions in Maine. There were 14,430 treatment admissions during 2006. During 2005, there were 13,885 treatment admissions in Maine.
- According to 2005-2006 NSDUH data, approximately 34,000 (3.01%) Maine citizens reported needing but not receiving treatment for illicit drug use within the past year.
- In the state of Maine it is estimated that there will be around 6,104 DUI's, and 72 deaths due to intoxicated driving this year. Statistics also show that there will be 370 deaths related to alcohol abuse, 1,896 tobacco related deaths, and 74 deaths due to illicit drug use.
- It is believed that there are around 63,776 marijuana users, 10,451 cocaine addicts, and 592 heroin addicts living in Maine. It is also estimated that there are 27,928 people abusing prescription drugs, 2,664 people that use inhalants, and 4,743 people who use hallucinogens.
- In Maine, there will be around 8,051 people arrested this year for drug related charges.
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Cocaine:
- Cocaine is available throughout the state in fractional-ounce to kilogram quantities. Traffickers typically travel by motor vehicle to meet cocaine suppliers, generally Dominican violators based in Lawrence, Lowell, and Lynn, MA; however, cocaine has been imported from as far away as Florida, New Jersey, and New York. The popularity of crack cocaine, which is cooked locally, continues to increase in southern and central Maine communities, with Portland and Lewiston serving as the main distribution points for dealers.
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Heroin:
- Massachusetts-based Dominican traffickers continue to be the primary suppliers of high quality heroin to the Maine distributors. These distributors, who typically transport the drug in passenger vehicles, provide for a moderately increasing availability of heroin in the state. While use is more prevalent in southern communities, it is also encountered in coastal and Canadian-border communities and has spread into rural and remote areas.
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Methamphetamine:
- Abuse and availability of methamphetamine have remained stable in Aroostook County, as evidenced by reports of “Yaba” and “Enhanced Ecstasy” seizures at the northernmost border points. Low-quality methamphetamine is express-mailed into the state from California and the southwestern states. Trafficking groups supplying methamphetamine to the state generally are connected to outlaw motorcycle clubs; while, truck drivers are most commonly abusing the substance and caught at the borders with personal use quantities to help them stay awake on long hauls. Maine’s size and predominantly rural population create an ideal environment for methamphetamine manufacturing; however, there have been no clandestine methamphetamine seizures by the DEA in the entire state since December 2005.
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Club Drugs:
- Law-enforcement officials in southern Maine continue to encounter MDMA use, most often associated with nightclubs, after-hour “rave” parties, private residences, and the student population. Suspected Canadian-produced “Enhanced Ecstasy” has been encountered at the northern border. Significant quantities of MDMA are transported from Canada into New England through Maine, smuggled in automobiles, minivans, pickup trucks, and in some instances in tractor-trailers and commercials buses.
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Marijuana:
- Marijuana, historically the illicit drug of choice in the state, is plentiful and readily available. Year-round indoor grows are common, but high-grade marijuana cultivated in Canada is smuggled over the border. Commercial-grade marijuana is often obtained from middlemen in the southern New England states and New York. Hashish is available sporadically in small quantities; however, the availability of the drug by outlaw motorcycle gangs operating across the border in Canada may change the situation in Maine. Traffickers occasionally have moved hashish and hash oil through Maine and into Canada. Caucasian traffickers typically supply locally grown marijuana as well as marijuana shipped from the southwest border and Canada. Shipments ranging from 1 pound to 1,000 pounds historically enter the state through the official Ports of Entry (PoE) via Interstate 95 in automobiles, minivans, pickup trucks, campers, rental trucks, and tractor-trailers; while the smaller quantities of marijuana, along with user quantities of MDMA and prescription drugs, are smuggled through the unguarded northern border regions of the state, via pedestrians/travelers with backpacks, who walk, snowmobile, swim, and/or utilize water craft to cross the border.
- Maine has a number of statutes related to marijuana possession, cultivation, trafficking, therapeutic research programs, paraphernalia, illegal importation, and asset forfeiture. These laws are often cited as the reason that Maine residents must travel to obtain their illicit drugs from out-of-state traffickers wary of the state’s tough drug laws.
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Pharmaceuticals and Other Drugs:
- Khat, along with powdered cocaine which is locally cooked into crack cocaine, continues to find its way into ethnic communities in Lewiston and Portland.
- The state continues to experience an increase in the availability of diverted pharmaceuticals. Oxycodone products such as Percocet®, Roxicet®, Dilaudid®, and OxyContin® are readily available. Doctor-shopping schemes, falsified prescriptions, and illicit sale and distribution by health-care professionals and workers are the primary diversion methods. Canadian pharmaceuticals, sold at cheap prices, also continue to be smuggled into the state. Current investigations indicate that OxyContin® diversion continues to be a problem in Maine. Diverted Methadone and its Suboxone alternative have also been identified as being among the most commonly abused and diverted pharmaceuticals in Maine.
The largest of the six New England states in area, Maine lies at the northeastern corner of the country. Its area, including 2,270 square miles (5,880 square km) of inland water, represents nearly half of the total area of New England. Maine is bounded to the northwest and northeast by the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, respectively, and to the west by New Hampshire. The famed rocky coastline of the state is angled from southwest to northeast along the Atlantic Ocean. Maine was admitted to the Union on March 15, 1820, as the 23rd state; its capital is Augusta. The Algonquian-speaking peoples inhabiting the region called it “Land of the Frozen Ground,” and there are two theories of the derivation of the state’s English name: that it was named for the former French province of Maine and that it was so named for being the “mainland,” as opposed to the coastal islands.
Maine’s Demographics
- Population (2006 American Community Survey): 1,321,5741
- Race/Ethnicity (2006 American Community Survey): 95.8% white; 1.0% black/African American; 0.5% American Indian/Alaska Native; 0.9% Asian; 0.0% Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander; 0.3% other race; 1.4% two or more races; 1.0% Hispanic/Latino (of any race)