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Written by Marcel Gemme C.C.D.C

Crack Cocaine Addiction, Treatment and Detox British Columbia

British Columbia, slowly but steadily is becoming the place to go for rehabilitation from any drug, including crack cocaine. With crack cocaine use in its own province higher than the Canadian average of 1.9 percent, at about two and a half percent they have a vested interest in pursuing cocaine rehabilitation.

Due to the warm climate and the fact that British Columbia is bordered by the Pacific Ocean, often homeless people in Canada migrate there. Victoria, a city in British Columbia is often the first city in all of North America to experiment with something outside the box regarding drug treatment. They often lead the way for the rest of Canada and the United States to follow. They were first to come up with safe needle exchange for addicts, cutting down on hepatitis C and HIV. They were also first to come up with methadone maintenance. Still with all that, deaths from overdose continue to rise in this province; they were up tenfold from 1998 to 2003, and still on the rise. More than 400 deaths happen a year, and while not all of them are crack related, cocaine takes more than its fair share of lives in British Columbia.

For a resident of British Columbia who is addicted to crack cocaine, there are many options available to them. There are over fifty drug rehabilitation and treatment facilities in British Columbia and most of them are covered by the provincial government at least in part. Not all are inpatient facilities though, and usually someone who is addicted to crack cocaine must be an inpatient for their own health and safety, not to mention vastly increase their chances of success at becoming clean. Crack cocaine is not an easy addiction to overcome, but there are people in British Columbia willing to help those who wish it.

References: http://www.drugaddictiontreatment.ca/drug-rehab.php

List of Crack Cocaine Inpatient Treatment