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

  • Two thirds of teens who abuse prescription pain relievers got them from family or friends, often without their knowledge, such as stealing them from the medicine cabinet.
  • Benzodiazepines are usually swallowed. Some people also inject and snort them.
  • Nearly 40% of stimulant abusers first began using before the age of 18.
  • Nearly 170,000 people try heroin for the first time every year. That number is steadily increasing.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Nearly one in every three emergency room admissions is attributed to opiate-based painkillers.
  • Crack is heated and smoked. It is so named because it makes a cracking or popping sound when heated.
  • Since 2000, non-illicit drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl and methadone contribute more to overdose fatalities in Utah than illicit drugs such as heroin.
  • Brain changes that occur over time with drug use challenge an addicted person's self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs.
  • 1 in 10 high school students has reported abusing barbiturates
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Opiate-based abuse causes over 17,000 deaths annually.
  • Ecstasy can cause kidney, liver and brain damage, including long-lasting lesions (injuries) on brain tissue.
  • Other names of ecstasy include Eckies, E, XTC, pills, pingers, bikkies, flippers, and molly.
  • 50% of adolescents mistakenly believe that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • There were over 190,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. in 2008 due to inhalant poisoning.
  • Women suffer more memory loss and brain damage than men do who drink the same amount of alcohol for the same period of time.
  • Most people who take heroin will become addicted within 12 weeks of consistent use.
  • During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States.

Free non-judgmental advice at

866-720-3784