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Texas (TX):

 

Abilene	(325) 672-4225
Amarilo	(806) 220-2199
Arlington	(817) 275-8041
Austin	(512) 795-9899
Austin	(512) 241-1034
Brownsville	(956) 544-5664
Corpus Christi	(361) 992-1911
Dallas	(214) 827-7288
Dallas	(972) 235-2559
El Paso	(915) 778-4411
El Paso	(915) 313-0005
Ft Worth	(817) 534-7477
Ft Worth	(817) 417-4015
Grand Prairie	(972) 206-0711
Houston	(713) 652-5122
Houston	(281) 293-0467
Irving	(972) 869-1811
Laredo	(956) 722-5155
Lubbock	(806) 785-3355
Lubbock	(806) 791-1364
McAllen	(956) 664-2850
Mesquite	(972) 285-5455
Plano - Frisco	(972) 377-9905
Richardson	(972) 231-2244
Rio Grand Valley	(956) 787-4022
San Antonio	(210) 212-7227
San Antonio	(210) 270-9638
Tyler	(903) 939-9508
Victoria	(361) 573-1411
Waco	(254) 296-0708
Waco	(254) 755-6066

Addiction Treatment Programs in Texas - Statistics (2004)

 

State Population (2004): 22,517,901

According to data collected by TEDS, a total of 37,058 admissions to alcohol rehab programs and drug rehab programs in Texas or drug addiction treatment programs in Texas, took place in 2004. Over 13% of these admissions were for the treatment of alcoholism only. Cocaine addiction treatment ranked first in Texas with 24.8% of all the drug rehab admissions. Second was marijuana with 21.6%. Heroin addiction and amphetamine addiction also showed up in third and fourth position respectively.

Source: The Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Treatment Episode Data Set.

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Alcohol Rehab Programs in Texas

 

Alcoholism, alcohol dependency and alcohol addiction all fall into the same category. Alcohol is physically addicting and alcoholism can have devastating effects on a person.s family, employment, health, finances and emotional well being. It is quite difficult to recover from the disease of alcoholism on one.s own, due to the alcohol withdrawal symptoms one experiences upon discontinuing alcohol use.

There are alcohol rehab programs in Texas which differ in alcohol rehab services and the patients the alcohol rehab program in Texas treat. There are federally funded alcohol rehab programs in Texas for those people that are financially challenged, alcohol rehab programs in Texas for adults and adolescents and alcohol rehab programs in Texas for those persons with private insurance and an ability to pay for alcohol rehab treatment.

For someone not in the alcohol treatment arena, knowing how to differentiate between one alcohol rehab program in Texas and another alcohol rehab program can be quite difficult. It is important to find out whether the alcohol rehab program in Texas you are looking at has their own alcohol detox program, whether the alcohol rehab has a comprehensive family program and which special addiction treatment needs the alcohol rehab in Texas meet. An example is whether the alcohol rehab in Texas can treat someone with a dual diagnosis, an eating disorder or whether the alcohol rehab in Texas is gay friendly for the GLBT population.

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Drug Rehab Programs in Texas

 

The Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) Mobile Enforcement Teams (MET) is a cooperative program with state and local law enforcement counterparts conceived in 1995 in response to the overwhelming problem of drug-related violent crime in towns and cities across the nation. There have been 23 MET deployments in the State of Texas since the inception of the program: Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Houston, Corpus Christi, Austin, Lubbock. Odessa and Plano are just some of them.

Addiction Treatment Resources can match your addiction treatment needs with a drug rehab program in Texas capable of meeting them. Not every drug rehab program in Texas is the right one for you. With our vast knowledge of what each drug rehab program in Texas can provide, we can make this process much less stressful and productive.

Gay Drug Rehab in Texas

 

While a person who is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (GLBT) can receive addiction treatment or alcohol treatment in any alcohol rehab program in Texas or drug rehab program, not all drug rehab programs or alcohol rehab programs in Texas are designed to meet their specific needs. That is to say, that there are not many drug rehab programs or alcohol rehab programs in Texas that have addiction treatment staff trained in how to deal with issues such as .coming out., internalized homophobia, homophobia, gay relationships or any other issues pertinent to the GLBT community. For a gay man or woman in Texas, secure in their sexuality, it might not make a difference, but for the vast majority of gay men and women, a gay friendly drug rehab in Texas or gay alcohol rehab in Texas, might mean the difference between recovery and relapse.

An effective gay drug rehab in Texas, gay alcohol rehab in Texas or gay friendly drug rehab in Texas should have as a minimum, addiction treatment groups specific to the GLBT population, an addiction treatment staff trained in the attitudes and issues surrounding the GLBT population, an addiction treatment staff that has dealt with any homophobic issues they might have and a passion to treat the GLBT community. It is important that any drug rehab or addiction treatment program in Texas that claims to treat the GLBT community, provide them with a safe setting in which to deal with issues that concern the heterosexual population.

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Drug Abuse and Alcohol Abuse in Texas

 

The greater Dallas/Fort Worth area serves primarily as a drug distribution and transshipment area. Drug smuggling and transportation are dominated by major Mexican trafficking organizations. These groups are poly-drug organizations smuggling methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and marijuana to the Dallas/Fort Worth area for distribution in the Eastern, Southeastern, and Midwestern United States. The Division's central location, and its physical and cultural proximity to the Mexican Border, provides a natural advantage for drug distribution/transshipment throughout the United States.

Due to its geographical location and extensive transportation infrastructure, the Houston Field Division continues to be a primary transshipment area for the bulk importation of most major categories of drugs to include marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamine. Drug smuggling and illicit transportation are primarily dominated by Mexican, Colombian and Dominican poly-drug trafficking organizations.

The El Paso Division area-of-responsibility covers 54 counties in West Texas and New Mexico, comprising 778 miles, which is approximately 40% of the U.S./Mexico Border. The Division has 117 agents, who cover an area that includes 18 Ports-of-Entry (POE) and USBP Checkpoints, 6 of which are in New Mexico, in addition to an estimated minimum of 80 illegal crossing points. Some of these locations are over 100 miles from our offices.

This area of the Southwest is unique because of our location on the U.S./Mexico border. El Paso and its sister city, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, comprise the largest metropolitan area on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Nearly 2 million people inhabit the El Paso/Juarez borderplex. Over 1.2 million people reside in Juarez.

The introduction of NAFTA had a major impact on the El Paso/Juarez area. The people crossing the international bridges on a daily basis and the large transportation industry available in this area (air, bus, trucking and rail) provide drug traffickers with innumerable drug and money smuggling opportunities. Rural, desert-like areas in New Mexico and West Texas, whether they be large ranches, National Park land backing up to the border, or some easily crossed places along the Rio Grande, offer tremendous smuggling opportunities to drug trafficking organizations.

West Texas serves as the gateway for narcotics destined to major metropolitan areas in the U.S., which is commonly referred to as the El Paso/Juarez Corridor. Sources-of-supply (SOS) from Mexico move significant quantities of marijuana and cocaine through the POEs using major east/west and north/south interstate highways that crisscross through the El Paso Division. These highways provide the traffickers with transportation routes for distribution of drugs throughout the country. Drug traffickers also obtain warehouses in El Paso for stash locations and recruit drivers from the area to transport the narcotics to various destinations throughout the U.S. Additional threats to the region are the shipments of controlled substances via commercial vehicles, including aircraft, buses, and by Amtrak rail. EL Paso is also considered a hub for significant amounts of drug proceeds being laundered through small businesses.

The Alpine, Texas Resident Office covers 22,609 miles, 315 of which are directly on the Southwest Border. This area is largely rural and sparsely populated, encompassing Big Bend Corridor, a transshipment route for drugs entering the U.S. from Northeast Mexico. These shipments travel en route to Midland/Odessa and other cities in the U.S. Criminal organizations based in Chihuahua, Mexico maintain command and control elements in the Midland/Odessa area to the north and in the border towns of Presidio and Redford to the south. Higher echelon members of the criminal organizations are often extended family members, making penetration of those organizations extremely difficult.

The Mexican Government is building 4-lane "La Entrada al Pacifico" highway (95% complete) which will serve as a northeast/southwest trade route from the port city of Topolobampo, Sinaloa, Mexico, through the Presidio, Texas POE, and intersects 3 major east-west Interstate highways: I-10, I-20, and I-40. It is estimated that as much as 30% of the truck traffic will be diverted from California and El Paso POEs to Presidio. This highway begins at a deep-water Pacific Ocean port that is over 500 miles closer, and much less congested than the Port of Los Angeles. This completed route will save up to four shipping days for goods moving between the Pacific Rim countries and Texas.

Additionally, the South Orient Railroad (purchased by the State of Texas in 2001), was leased for 40 years to Nuevo Grupo, Mexico, and is expected to provide not only daily passenger train service but also freight service between Mexico and the U.S.

Cocaine:

 
Throughout the metropolitan areas of Dallas and Fort Worth, crack cocaine remains popular and easily attainable. The Dallas metropolitan area serves as the primary distribution point for crack to outlying areas in North Texas as well as the states of Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Crack is readily available throughout the Houston Division. It is produced locally. Crack is trafficked by local organizations along the I-10 corridor in east Texas to western Louisiana. There is ample availability of "crack" cocaine in El Paso, where its use is considered low to moderate. In Midland, Texas, crack cocaine use and distribution is at a level that is considered dangerous to the quality of life. The crack cocaine abuse is a primary concern to both local and federal law enforcement agencies in the Midland/Odessa area. Crack cocaine is readily available throughout New Mexico, but is most prevalent in urban areas. The majority of the crack available comes from powder cocaine supplied by MDTOs to local crack distributors who then convert the powder cocaine into crack. Ethnic gangs are the primary distributors of crack cocaine in urban areas. Crack poses the greatest threat to school children, as street level distributors can be found in all social and economic layers of the community. Of special concern is the high level of violence associated with crack cocaine traffickers. Cocaine addiction treatment - GET HELP NOW!

Heroin:

 
Mexican black tar (MBT) heroin remains the primary heroin threat in north Texas. MBT heroin is readily available throughout north Texas. Based on intelligence, the greater Dallas Fort Worth area is a distribution point for MBT heroin shipped to the Eastern, Southeastern, and Midwestern United States. Intelligence indicates an increase in the availability of Colombian and Southwest Asian (SWA) heroin in the greater Dallas area. Mexican black tar and brown heroin are routinely seized in south Texas. In recent years, the Houston Field Division has been identified as a transshipment point for kilogram quantities of Colombian heroin destined for the east coast. Small quantities of Asian heroin are sporadically encountered in south Texas, smuggled in via courier or seized from the mail. Within the last year, there has been a noticeable increase in the availability and purity of Mexican heroin in south Texas. Mexican black tar and brown heroin are routinely seized at the POEs in El Paso County. Black tar heroin has long been available in this region from sources in the Mexican States of Durango and Chihuahua. Heroin is most commonly smuggled in secret compartments in private vehicles and concealed on persons. The heroin is usually carried across the border by couriers, however there is a developing trend of heroin distributors crossing the border with their supply. Heroin availability has shown a steady increase over the past five years as evidenced by the increase in kilogram seizures and a steady decrease in price. Enforcement operations have significantly disrupted the availability of street level quantities of heroin in the area and briefly reduced the number of overdoses and overdose deaths. However, in part because heroin use is socially and culturally accepted in the area, the heroin issue consistently reappears. Heroin addiction treatment - GET HELP NOW!

Methamphetamine:

 
Availability of methamphetamine remains high in north Texas, and the pace of enforcement activities surrounding methamphetamine continues to escalate. Mexican manufactured methamphetamine is transported to the region through traditional means, such as passenger and commercial vehicles. Additionally, small clandestine labs that produce small amounts of extremely high quality methamphetamine are encountered in both rural and urban areas. Recent intelligence and seizure analysis indicates an increased availability of high purity methamphetamine in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex area. Because of the increased demand, greater availability, and expanding market, the high purity methamphetamine threat will probably increase.

The availability of both Mexican methamphetamine and locally produced methamphetamine in the Houston Division is increasing. Mexican methamphetamine is the primary type found in the Division. It is transported in multi-pound quantities directly from Mexico or from Mexico via California. From Houston, methamphetamine is also distributed to the midwest and the east coast. In Houston, crystallized Methamphetamine (ICE) is being sold in local clubs and is also being offered by Mexican traffickers. Domestically produced methamphetamine continues to be manufactured by motorcycle gangs and independent producers in small batches using pseudoephedrine, anhydrous ammonia, red phosphorous, iodine, lithium batteries, or muriatic acid. There are numerous labs operating in East Texas, Corpus Christi, and Austin. Most of these labs are small, mobile pseudoephedrine labs that produce small amounts for distribution in the local area.

Methamphetamine poses a multi-pronged threat in this region. It is available in multiple kilogram quantities. The majority of methamphetamine seized originates in Mexico, but arrives in New Mexico from distributors in Los Angeles, CA and Phoenix, AZ. Methamphetamine investigations are especially prevalent in the area known as the Four Corners Region where the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet to form a common border and along the eastern New Mexico/Texas border. Small, clandestine laboratories are popular in the area, especially in remote, rural locations in New Mexico. In Southern New Mexico, closer to Las Cruces and El Paso, the current preferred process is the "Birch method", that uses chemicals, such as anhydrous ammonia, to process methamphetamine. Use of the "Birch method" is believed to be an attempt by small laboratory operators to acquire non-controlled chemicals for production, in order to subvert law enforcement scrutiny. Recent intelligence analysis indicates increased seizures of more .Mom and Pop. methamphetamine labs in the El Paso Division. It is cheaper to produce methamphetamine for your own use versus buying it on the street. Methamphetamine addiction treatment - GET HELP NOW!

Ecstasy and Club Drugs:

 
Club drugs remain readily available in North Texas. The most frequently abused of club drugs is "Ecstasy" (MDMA). Intelligence indicates the increased abuse of Ecstasy among 18 to 24 year old African Americans, specifically in the greater Dallas area. Asians continue to be involved in the sale and distribution of MDMA. Intelligence further indicates increased interest among Mexican traffickers to distribute and sell Ecstasy in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The Dallas FD is currently ranked 2nd nationally for GHB and Rohypnol emergency room visits and above national average in its emergency room visits for MDMA, Ketamine, LSD, and PCP. The majority of the MDMA available in the Houston Division continues to originate in Europe, specifically from Belgium and the Netherlands. MDMA is most commonly transported via courier through airlines. Recent reporting from Monterrey, Mexico shows northern Mexico to be an emerging source for MDMA production. The availability and popularity of MDMA is increasing in the area covered by the Division. Raves are a primary venue for MDMA distribution, in addition to clubs and gyms. The number and frequency of raves throughout the area has increased. Other dangerous drugs readily available and transported through Houston include Rohypnol, Ketamine, GHB, LSD, and PCP. Several drugs in this category are more available, due, in part, to El Paso's close proximity to Juarez, Mexico, where purchases can be made over the counter from unscrupulous pharmacists. Ecstasy, Rohypnol, and other pharmaceuticals are being used at Rave parties in El Paso County. The use of these types of drugs has not skyrocketed, as in other metropolitan areas in the U.S. These same drugs are available in New Mexico. Ecstasy and Club Drug addiction treatment - GET HELP NOW!

Marijuana:

 
Marijuana remains readily available and is considered the most widely used illegal drug throughout the State of Texas. Marijuana in this area is primarily imported from the Texas/Mexico border via privately owned vehicles (POV) and commercial trucks. Large quantities of marijuana are routinely seized by all levels of law enforcement during highway interdiction stops in the North Texas area. In recent years, increased enforcement activity has lead to the seizure of several significant indoor marijuana cultivation operations in North Texas. These operations range in size from 100 to over 1100 plants and have produced marijuana with THC levels as high as 15%. Mexican marijuana is the most predominantly trafficked drug in the Houston Division. It is not uncommon for the US Border Patrol to make multi-hundred pound marijuana seizures from "back packers" at points along the Rio Grande River, and from vehicles at the US Border Patrol secondary checkpoints in Texas. At the Ports of Entry, ton quantity seizures of marijuana are often made from commercial trucking attempting to enter the United States. Marijuana addiction treatment - GET HELP NOW!

Prescription Drugs:

 
Current investigations indicate that diversion of hydrocodone products and pseudoephedrine continues to be a problem in Texas. Primary methods of diversion being reported are illegal sale and distribution by health care professionals and workers, .doctor shopping. (going to a number of doctors to obtain prescriptions for a controlled pharmaceutical), forged prescriptions, pharmacy theft, and the Internet. Benzodiazepines, OxyContin®, Prometh® w/codeine, fentanyl, Tussionex®, Lortab®/Lorcet®, ketamine, Buprenex®, and phentermine were also identified as being among the most commonly abused and diverted pharmaceuticals in Texas. Prescription Drug addiction treatment - GET HELP NOW!

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