




San Joaquin Hills, California
San Joaquin Hills, CA Profile
San Joaquin Hills, CA, population 2,959 , is located
in California's Orange county,
about 4.1 miles from Irvine and 5.1 miles from Costa Mesa.
San Joaquin Hills Statistics
San Joaquin Hills Gender Information
Males in San Joaquin Hills: 1,434 (48%)
Females in San Joaquin Hills: 1,525 (52%)
As % of Population in San Joaquin Hills
Race Diversity in San Joaquin Hills
White: 86%
African American: 1%
Asian: 10%
Other/Mixed: 3%
As % of Population in San Joaquin Hills
Age Diversity in San Joaquin Hills
Median Age in San Joaquin Hills: 37.0 (Males in San Joaquin Hills: 38.0, Females in San Joaquin Hills: 36.0)
San Joaquin Hills Males Under 20: 10%
San Joaquin Hills Females Under 20: 12%
San Joaquin Hills Males 20 to 40: 17%
San Joaquin Hills Females 20 to 40: 19%
San Joaquin Hills Males 40 to 60: 16%
San Joaquin Hills Females 40 to 60: 16%
San Joaquin Hills Males Over 60: 5%
San Joaquin Hills Females Over 60: 4%
Economics in San Joaquin Hills
San Joaquin Hills Household Average Size: 2.15 people
San Joaquin Hills Median Household Income: $ 102,879
San Joaquin Hills Median Value of Homes: $ 595,500
San Joaquin Hills Location Information
Elevation: 1,050 feet above sea level.
Land Area: Square Miles.
Water Area: Square Miles.
Nearby Towns & Cities to San Joaquin Hills
Irvine 4.1 Miles
Costa Mesa 5.1 Miles
Aliso Viejo 5.3 Miles
Newport Beach 5.3 Miles
Laguna Beach 5.7 Miles
Laguna Woods 6.4 Miles
Laguna Hills 7.1 Miles
Lake Forest 8.8 Miles
Tustin 9.3 Miles
Santa Ana 9.4 Miles
Big Cities Nearest San Joaquin Hills
(Population 100,000+)
Irvine 4.1 Miles
Costa Mesa 5.1 Miles
Santa Ana 9.4 Miles
Huntington Beach 9.9 Miles
Orange 12.2 Miles
Garden Grove 12.7 Miles
Anaheim 16.1 Miles
Fullerton 18.6 Miles
Long Beach 23.0 Miles
Corona 24.0 Miles
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Facts
Trying to identify a drinking age that would significantly reduce alcohol abuse is a difficult task that most likely will never be resolved. To even consider an appropriate legal drinking age, issues of freedom, responsibility, family, parental rights, religion, and politics must be taken into account. Many activists and anthropologists claim that the United States' drinking age is too high. In comparison with many other countries, the legal drinking age of 21 is one of the highest in the world. Narcotics addiction is extremely difficult to overcome. Abusers of powerful opiates such as hydromorphone often need to be hospitalized in a rehabilitation clinic, sometimes for as long as thirty days. Attempting to quit the drug without medical assistance can lead to a host of withdrawal symptoms, including uncontrolled muscle spasms, cramps, diarrhea, sweating, clammy skin, anxiety and panic attacks, nausea, and a prolonged period of depression. Often the addict just caves in and goes looking for the drug again. Many recovering addicts discover that the drug abuse has so altered their lifestyles that they literally need to "begin again" with a new life. Drug abusers trying to go straight are always counseled to end friendships that developed around the abusive lifestyle, to avoid the places they went to purchase or steal drugs, and to seek new social and professional contacts. This can prove particularly difficult for those in the health care industry—the doctors, nurses, and other medical support staff—who abuse painkillers. Community-based outreach. More than 15 years of research on HIV/AIDS prevention interventions with IDUs, crack cocaine users, and many of their sex partners has shown that community-based outreach is effective for all types of drug-using risk groups, in a range of local settings. Cumulative research from a 23-site study that followed 18,144 drug users (13,164 IDUs and 4,980 non-injecting crack users) reports that 3 to 6 months after participating in the intervention, 72 percent of the IDUs either stopped injecting drugs or reduced their frequency of injection. Of those who continued to inject, nearly 60 percent either stopped or reduced reusing or sharing their syringes. Twenty-six percent of the crack cocaine users, including 8,184 IDUs who also used crack and 4,980 non-injecting crack users, had stopped using crack cocaine at follow-up. Nearly 25 percent of the 18,144 drug users who participated in the study had entered drug abuse treatment at follow-up, many for the first time. Insufflation (known colloquially as "snorting," "sniffing," or "blowing") is the most common method of ingestion of recreational powdered cocaine in the Western world. |
Alcoholism
Alcoholism, also known as "alcohol dependence," is a condition that includes craving and continued alcohol abuse despite repeated drinking-related problems, such as losing a job or getting into trouble with the law. It includes four major areas: Craving: - A strong need, or compulsion, to drink. Impaired control: -The inability to limit one's drinking on any given occasion. Physical dependence: -Withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety, when alcohol use is stopped after a period of heavy drinking. Tolerance: - The need for increasing amounts of alcohol in order to feel its effects.
Dependence
Dependence is the compulsive use of a substance despite negative consequences which can be severe; drug dependence is simply excessive use of a drug or use of a drug for purposes for which it was not medically intended. Physical dependence on a substance (needing a drug to function) is not necessary or sufficient to define addiction. There are some substances that don't cause addiction but do cause physical dependence (for example, some blood pressure medications) and substances that cause addiction but not classic physical dependence (cocaine withdrawal, for example, it does not have symptoms like vomiting and chills; it is mainly characterized by depression).
Drug Side Effects
Drug addiction and abuse comes with a heavy price. There are drastic drug side effects associated with drug misuse and abuse. Drug side effects from legal and illegal drugs can range from mild itching to comas and death. In addition to the physical drug side effects mentioned, there are many psychological drug side effects of drug abuse; the most serious being drug addiction and overdose.
Residential Treatment
Residential treatment offers intensive drug addiction help over a period of weeks or months. This form of treatment has some advantages over out-patient treatment, although it may not be suitable for everyone. For example, those who are responsible for caring for young children may be better suited to attendance at an out patient treatment program. Residential treatment offers a safe, drug and alcohol-free environment where individuals can confront their own drug addiction and associated issues, with the help of qualified staff. Therapy usually consists of a mixture of group counseling, individual counseling and an introduction to the principles of a drug recovery program.
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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