




Highland Park, Michigan
Highland Park, MI Profile
Highland Park, MI, population 16,746 , is located
in Michigan's Wayne county,
about 5.8 miles from Detroit and 6.1 miles from Warren.
In the 90's the population of Highland Park has declined by about 17%.
It is Estimated in recent years the population of Highland Park has been declining at an annual rate of 1.3 percent.
Highland Park Statistics
Highland Park Gender Information
Males in Highland Park: 7,730 (46%)
Females in Highland Park: 9,016 (54%)
As % of Population in Highland Park
Race Diversity in Highland Park
White: 4%
African American: 93%
Other/Mixed: 3%
As % of Population in Highland Park
Age Diversity in Highland Park
Median Age in Highland Park: 34.5 (Males in Highland Park: 32.4, Females in Highland Park: 36.1)
Highland Park Males Under 20: 16%
Highland Park Females Under 20: 16%
Highland Park Males 20 to 40: 12%
Highland Park Females 20 to 40: 14%
Highland Park Males 40 to 60: 11%
Highland Park Females 40 to 60: 13%
Highland Park Males Over 60: 7%
Highland Park Females Over 60: 11%
Economics in Highland Park
Highland Park Household Average Size: 2.56 people
Highland Park Median Household Income: $ 17,737
Highland Park Median Value of Homes: $ 47,900
Highland Park Location Information
Elevation: 636 feet above sea level.
Land Area: 3.0 Square Miles.
Nearby Towns & Cities to Highland Park
Hamtramck 2.6 Miles
Hazel Park 4.0 Miles
Ferndale 4.3 Miles
Pleasant Ridge 5.1 Miles
Madison Heights 5.6 Miles
Oak Park 5.8 Miles
Detroit 5.8 Miles
Warren 6.1 Miles
Royal Oak 6.3 Miles
Huntington Woods 6.3 Miles
Big Cities Nearest Highland Park
(Population 100,000+)
Detroit 5.8 Miles
Warren 6.1 Miles
Sterling Heights 12.6 Miles
Livonia 13.3 Miles
Ann Arbor 33.5 Miles
Flint 51.6 Miles
Toledo 56.4 Miles
Lansing 77.7 Miles
Cleveland 95.5 Miles
Akron 122.5 Miles
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Facts
Risk and protective factors can affect children at different stages of their lives. At each stage, risks occur that can be changed through prevention intervention. Early childhood risks, such as aggressive behavior, can be changed or prevented with family, school, and community interventions that focus on helping children develop appropriate, positive behaviors. If not addressed, negative behaviors can lead to more risks, such as academic failure and social difficulties, which put children at further risk for later drug abuse. The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914 incorrectly referred to cocaine as a narcotic, and the misclassification passed into popular culture. Cocaine being a stimulant, not a narcotic. Although technically illegal for purposes of distribution and use, the distribution, sale and use of cocaine was still legal for registered companies and individuals. Addictive behaviors do have special characteristics related to the social contexts in which they originate. All of the environmental cues surrounding initial drug use and development of the addiction actually become “conditioned” to that drug use and are thus critical to the development and expression of addiction. Environmental cues are paired in time with an individual’s initial drug use experiences and, through classical conditioning, take on conditioned stimulus properties. When those cues are present at a later time, they elicit anticipation of a drug experience and thus generate tremendous drug craving. Cue-induced craving is one of the most frequent causes of drug use relapses, even after long periods of abstinence, independently of whether drugs are available. The salience of environmental or contextual cues helps explain why reentry to one’s community can be so difficult for addicts leaving the controlled environments of treatment or correctional settings and why aftercare is so essential to successful recovery. The person who became addicted in the home environment is constantly exposed to the cues conditioned to his or her initial drug use, such as the neighborhood where he or she hung out, drug-using buddies, or the lamppost where he or she bought drugs. Simple exposure to those cues automatically triggers craving and can lead rapidly to relapses. This is one reason why someone who apparently overcame drug cravings while in prison or residential treatment could quickly revert to drug use upon returning home. In fact, one of the major goals of drug addiction treatment is to teach addicts how to deal with the cravings caused by inevitable exposure to these conditioned cues. Underage drinking is a significant but often overlooked problem in the United States. Young people between the ages of 12 and 20 are more likely to use alcohol than use tobacco or illicit drugs, including marijuana. Although adolescents tend to drink less frequently than adults, they drink considerably more per occasion—5 drinks on average. Underage alcohol use, and especially binge drinking1—a particularly harmful pattern of drinking—puts individuals at risk for a range of problems. |
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.
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.
Drug Rehabilitation
Drug rehabilitation is a place or program that an individual enters to treat a drug or alcohol addiction. Through therapy and education, the individual is restored to their former non-drug using self. They are then able to re-enter society clean and sober. There are many reasons why a person would need to attend a drug rehabilitation program. Some of the many reasons are: the inability to control their drinking or drug use, alienating their friends and family, problems with the law, and problems at work. Also, there are several different types of drug rehabilitation programs available: inpatient, outpatient, residential, short-term, and long-term.
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).
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.
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