Marijuana addiction treatment in Arizona

Marijuana is the most controversial drug as to the danger for dependency, physical health and mental problem. Don't get mislead! Most of the hard drug users have started their addiction with marijuana.

Drug rehab centers can be really confusing with all the different programs and philosophies in Arizona. There are different school of thought on marijuana. We will try to teach you what the drug really is. Remember if Marijuana would be so "innocent", you would not be reading this website now. Drug rehabilitation is a process with different phases that will bring the individual to a drug free life.

Marijuana use in Arizona

Cannabis is a major drug threat to Arizona. Marijuana cultivated in Mexico is the predominant type available throughout the state. Locally produced cannabis and Canada-produced marijuana, commonly called BC Bud, are also available, but to a lesser degree. Cannabis production occurs within the state and usually is controlled by Caucasian and Hispanic criminal groups and independent producers.
Marijuana is the most widely abused illicit substance in Arizona. Of the 48 Arizona law enforcement respondents to the NDTS 2002, 29 reported high levels of cannabis abuse in their jurisdictions, 6 reported medium levels of abuse, and 1 reported a low level of abuse. Twelve respondents did not rate the level of cannabis abuse in their jurisdictions.
Marijuana abuse in the state is a concern to treatment providers. Marijuana-related admissions to publicly funded treatment facilities in Arizona raised each year from 1998 through 2001, then diminished in 2002. According to TEDS, the amount of treatment admissions for marijuana abuse rose from 634 in 1998 to 757 in 1999, to 790 in 2000, to 1,003 in 2001, then decreased to 610 in 2002. The number of marijuana-related admissions was bigger than for any other substance in 1999 and 2000.
The number of marijuana-related ED mentions in the Phoenix metropolitan region increased from 741 in 1997 to 1,366 in 2002, according to DAWN information. The rate of marijuana-related ED mentions per 100,000 population in the Phoenix metropolitan area (46) was lightly lower than the rate nationwide (47) in 2002.
Cannabis is the most frequently detected illegal drug in employment-related drug screenings. According to the Arizona HIDTA, a private testing laboratory lead 108,562 screenings in 1999, 155,559 in 2000, and 171,845 in 2001. Marijuana was detected in 3,227 of the 8,338 positive results in 1999 (38.7%), 4,707 of the 12,258 positive results in 2000 (38.4%), and 4,518 of positive results in 2001 (37%).
Mexican DTOs increasingly are using teenagers to smuggle cannabis across the Arizona portion of the U.S.-Mexico border. Immigration and Naturalization Service (now Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement) authorities at the Nogales POE reported that at least two Mexican DTOs use minor couriers to smuggle marijuana and cocaine into the country. The juveniles are clean-cut, well-dressed people look like students. Each usually is paid between $50 and $100 per trip to bodycarry 5-pound drug shipments across the border. In March 2002 USCS agents confiscated 6 pounds of marijuana from a 17-year-old at the Nogales POE; the youth had smuggled the substance for a Mexican couple who recruits teenagers in Mexico to smuggle cannabis into Arizona for the DTO. The individual was paid $50 per trip and was supposed to make five trips across the border that day.