Drug & Alcohol Detox Centers in North Carolina

North Carolina Addiction & Detox Statistics

• Although North Carolina has been experiencing a major heroin epidemic like the rest of the U.S., the state’s biggest issue is alcohol. Last year, there were nearly 52,000 admissions to addiction treatment programs in the state of North Carolina and most of them were for alcoholism.
• Crack cocaine is another drug with unexpectedly high abuse rates in North Carolina. According to estimates, between 70 and 80 percent of the cocaine brought into North Carolina is turned into crack cocaine, the smokable, freebase form of the drug.
• Based on analysis of distribution routes, it’s been determined that the majority of the illicit drugs that are sold in North Carolina are brought into the state from nearby metro areas that serve as main distribution points, including Miami, Atlanta, and New Jersey.
• For every 100,000 deaths that occur in North Carolina, no less than 12 percent of them are from a drug overdose.
• Several years ago, the U.S. experienced a transition wherein many of the people who had been addicted to prescription painkillers began to switch to heroin. While the heroin epidemic is occurring in North Carolina, too, the state still has a much higher-than-average rate of prescription painkiller addiction.