Toll Free Assessment
866-720-3784
Drug Rehab Treatment Centers

Pennsylvania Treatment Centers

in Pennsylvania

There are a total of drug treatment centers listed under the category in pennsylvania. If you have a facility that is part of the category you can contact us to share it on our website. Additional information about these listings in Pennsylvania is available by phoning our toll free rehab helpline at 866-720-3784.

Rehabilitation Categories

We have carefully sorted the drug rehab centers in pennsylvania. Filter your search for a treatment program or facility with specific categories. You may also find a resource using our addiction treatment search. For additional information on pennsylvania drug rehab please phone our toll free helpline.

Drug Facts

  • Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
  • Hallucinogen rates have risen by over 30% over the past twenty years.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • The most commonly abused opioid painkillers include oxycodone, hydrocodone, meperidine, hydromorphone and propoxyphene.
  • 6.8 million people with an addiction have a mental illness.
  • More than 16.3 million adults are impacted by Alcoholism in the U.S. today.
  • Oxycodone is as powerful as heroin and affects the nervous system the same way.
  • Emergency room admissions from prescription opiate abuse have risen by over 180% over the last five years.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Ambien, the commonly prescribed sleep aid, is also known as Zolpidem.
  • Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca bush (Erythroxylum coca), which is native to South America.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • 'Crack' is Cocaine cooked into rock form by processing it with ammonia or baking soda.
  • Today, heroin is known to be a more potent and faster acting painkiller than morphine because it passes more readily from the bloodstream into the brain.
  • Fewer than one out of ten North Carolinian's who use illegal drugs, and only one of 20 with alcohol problems, get state funded help, and the treatment they do receive is out of date and inadequate.
  • Its first derivative utilized as medicine was used to put dogs to sleep but was soon produced by Bayer as a sleep aid in 1903 called Veronal
  • 12 to 17 year olds abuse prescription drugs more than they abuse ecstasy, crack/cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine combined.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • Steroids can also lead to certain tumors and liver damage leading to cancer, according to studies conducted in the 1970's and 80's.

Free non-judgmental advice at

866-720-3784