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

Puerto-rico/puerto rico Treatment Centers

in Puerto-rico/puerto rico

There are a total of drug treatment centers listed under the category in puerto-rico/puerto rico. 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 Puerto-rico/puerto rico is available by phoning our toll free rehab helpline at 866-720-3784.

Rehabilitation Categories

We have carefully sorted the drug rehab centers in puerto-rico/puerto rico. 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 puerto-rico/puerto rico drug rehab please phone our toll free helpline.

Drug Facts

  • Substance abuse and addiction also affects other areas, such as broken families, destroyed careers, death due to negligence or accident, domestic violence, physical abuse, and child abuse.
  • Drinking behavior in women differentiates according to their age; many resemble the pattern of their husbands, single friends or married friends, whichever is closest to their own lifestyle and age.
  • Over 80% of individuals have confidence that prescription drug abuse will only continue to grow.
  • 2.6 million people with addictions have a dependence on both alcohol and illicit drugs.
  • Illicit drug use in America has been increasing. In 2012, an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or olderor 9.2 percent of the populationhad used an illicit drug or abused a psychotherapeutic medication (such as a pain reliever, stimulant, or tranquilizer) in the past month. This is up from 8.3 percent in 2002. The increase mostly reflects a recent rise in the use of marijuana, the most commonly used illicit drug.
  • Nearly a third of all stimulant abuse takes the form of amphetamine diet pills.
  • 30% of emergency room admissions from prescription abuse involve opiate-based substances.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Cocaine is the second most trafficked illegal drug in the world.
  • Women who have an abortion are more prone to turn to alcohol or drug abuse afterward.
  • Heroin can be injected, smoked or snorted
  • Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs): A measure of years of life lost or lived in less than full health.
  • 18 percent of drivers killed in a crash tested positive for at least one drug.
  • More than fourty percent of people who begin drinking before age 15 eventually become alcoholics.
  • Over 210,000,000 opioids are prescribed by pharmaceutical companies a year.
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Crack cocaine, a crystallized form of cocaine, was developed during the cocaine boom of the 1970s and its use spread in the mid-1980s.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • Ecstasy causes chemical changes in the brain which affect sleep patterns, appetite and cause mood swings.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Companywere marketed for the relief of asthma.

Free non-judgmental advice at

866-720-3784