



Riverside, California
Riverside, CA Profile
Riverside, CA, population 255,166 , is located
in California's Riverside county,
about 9.6 miles from Moreno Valley and 9.9 miles from Fontana.
In the 90's the population of Riverside has grown by about 13%.
It is Estimated in recent years the population of Riverside has been growing at an annual rate of 3.2 percent.
Reports show that during 2003 property crime levels in the Riverside area were higher than California's average.
The same data shows violent crime levels to be higher than the California average.
Riverside Statistics
Riverside Gender Information
Males in Riverside: 125,705 (49%)
Females in Riverside: 129,461 (51%)
As % of Population in Riverside
Race Diversity in Riverside
White: 59%
African American: 7%
Native American: 1%
Asian: 6%
Other/Mixed: 27%
As % of Population in Riverside
Age Diversity in Riverside
Median Age in Riverside: 29.8 (Males in Riverside: 28.6, Females in Riverside: 30.9)
Riverside Males Under 20: 18%
Riverside Females Under 20: 17%
Riverside Males 20 to 40: 16%
Riverside Females 20 to 40: 15%
Riverside Males 40 to 60: 11%
Riverside Females 40 to 60: 12%
Riverside Males Over 60: 5%
Riverside Females Over 60: 7%
Economics in Riverside
Riverside Household Average Size: 3.02 people
Riverside Median Household Income: $ 41,646
Riverside Median Value of Homes: $ 136,000
Law Enforcement in Riverside
Reported crimes in the Riverside area during 2003:
Murder and non-negligent man-slaughter: 24
Forcible rape: 102
Robbery: 573
Aggravated assault: 1,217
Violent crime events per 100,000 people: 691
Burglary: 2,194
Larceny-theft: 8,098
Motor vehicle theft: 2,599
Arson: 231
Property crime events per 100,000 people: 4,652
Riverside Location Information
Elevation: 830 feet above sea level.
Land Area: 77.7 Square Miles.
Water Area: 0.3 Square Miles.
Nearby Towns & Cities to Riverside
Rubidoux 3.0 Miles
Sunnyslope 4.6 Miles
Pedley 4.8 Miles
Woodcrest 5.4 Miles
Highgrove 5.6 Miles
Glen Avon 6.5 Miles
Grand Terrace 7.3 Miles
Mira Loma 7.4 Miles
Bloomington 8.1 Miles
Home Gardens 8.9 Miles
Big Cities Nearest Riverside
(Population 100,000+)
Moreno Valley 9.6 Miles
Fontana 9.9 Miles
Corona 11.2 Miles
San Bernardino 12.3 Miles
Rancho Cucamonga 15.5 Miles
Ontario 16.5 Miles
Pomona 21.6 Miles
Orange 28.6 Miles
Santa Ana 30.7 Miles
Anaheim 30.9 Miles
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Facts
SEDATIVES AND HYPNOTICS. Sedatives and hypnotics are drug families that are often considered in one group called the sedative-hypnotics. These drugs depress or slow down the body's functions, and can be used to calm anxiety or to induce sleep. When taken in high doses or when abused, these drugs can cause unconsciousness or death. These drugs include barbiturates and benzodiazepines. Some barbiturates are amobarbital (Amytal), pentobarbital (Nembutal), and secobarbital (Seconal). Some benzodiazepines include diazepam (Valium), chlordiazepoxide (Librium), and lorazepam (Ativan). When a person dependent on these drugs stops taking them suddenly, he or she might experience restlessness, muscle cramps, anxiety, insomnia, irritability, paranoid behavior, and even seizures or death. Daily marijuana use has been shown to: Cause users to get lower grades and become less likely to graduate, compared to students who do not smoke. Significantly impair skills related to attention, memory and learning even after not smoking for 24 hours. Cause problems in sustaining and shifting attention. Effect the ability to register, organize and use information, even compared to occasional users of marijuana. Impair users' ability to recall words from a list even a week after quitting marijuana use. Many accidents are caused when teenagers, high on drugs, believe they are invincible and try to prove it, or are just so confused that they can't comprehend danger. No matter how careful people are when they are sober, drugs or alcohol can cloud their judgment and turn simple acts like crossing the street into life-threatening situations. Environmental Factors: Another behavioral approach focuses on people, places, and things in a person's environment that produce a craving for cocaine. These might include drug-using friends, drug paraphernalia, white powder, and places where cocaine is used. In therapy, the person is exposed repeatedly to those aspects of his or her environment. The difference is that, in the controlled conditions of therapy, cocaine is not available. As a result, the events or places that used to produce a craving gradually lose their ability to do so. Once the person breaks the connection between cocaine and certain places or certain things, he or she is less likely to use cocaine when in those places or exposed to those things. |
Abstinence
Abstinence is the act or practice of refraining from indulging a desire. The type of abstinence we are referring to here is abstinence from drugs and alcohol. This term has two connotations when it comes to abstaining from drugs. The first refers to drug or alcohol treatment programs that aim to help an individual stop using drugs or alcohol for the rest of their lives. The time abstinence is also used in drug education and prevention. It refers to trying to stop children from ever using drugs.
Sobriety
Sobriety means the moderation in or abstinence from consumption of alcoholic liquor or use of drugs. When an individual with an addiction problem enters drug rehabilitation, their main goal is to attain long term sobriety. Unfortunately, sometimes drug addicts and alcoholics find they are able to sustain short periods of sobriety followed by a drug or alcohol relapse. This is why attending a drug or alcohol rehab will help the individual maintain their focus on sobriety. Often, it is only by getting help that individuals with severe drug addiction problems are able to achieve lasting sobriety.
Intervention
An intervention is when a group of loved ones and/or a trained intervention counselor meets with the person in need of help for the purpose of breaking down their denial and motivating them to immediately seek drug addiction treatment. Often, individuals in the midst of drug addiction engage in a variety of self destructive behaviors. Although baffling to friends and family members such people generally either aren't aware on a conscious level that they have a drug addiction problem, or even when they know they have a problem they may cling to the false belief that the problem will somehow go away without any outside help. When an intervention is held a moment of clarity is created
for the addict. Most people struggling with the problem of drug or alcohol
addiction will accept help the very day of the intervention.
Detox
Detox is necessary when an individual through their chronic use of drugs or alcohol has developed an addiction. The objective of detox is to help the individual achieve a drug and alcohol free state. Detox is intended to relieve the physical symptoms of withdrawal and helps prepare the individual for entry into drug rehabilitation. Therefore, the ultimate goal of detox is preparation for long term recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.
Tolerance
Tolerance to a drug takes place when an individual is exposed to the same drug repeatedly and begins to build up an resistance to the drugs effects. The body then adapts and develops a tolerance for the drug. The addiction that is produced is so powerful that it creates cravings in the user. These cravings for the drug are the result of its impact on the individual's memory with feelings of pleasantness and euphoria which the individual has come to associate with the taking of the drug.
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