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

Illinois/IL/pontiac/delaware/illinois Treatment Centers

in Illinois/IL/pontiac/delaware/illinois

There are a total of drug treatment centers listed under the category in illinois/IL/pontiac/delaware/illinois. 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 Illinois/IL/pontiac/delaware/illinois is available by phoning our toll free rehab helpline at 866-720-3784.

Rehabilitation Categories

We have carefully sorted the drug rehab centers in illinois/IL/pontiac/delaware/illinois. 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 illinois/IL/pontiac/delaware/illinois drug rehab please phone our toll free helpline.

Drug Facts

  • Pharmacological treatment for depression began with MAOIs and tricyclics dating back to the 1950's.
  • Even if you smoke just a few cigarettes a week, you can get addicted to nicotine in a few weeks or even days. The more cigarettes you smoke, the more likely you are to become addicted.
  • 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.
  • Approximately 65% of adolescents say that home medicine cabinets are the main source of drugs.
  • Most people try heroin for the first time in their late teens or early 20s. Anyone can become addictedall races, genders, and ethnicities.
  • People who inject drugs such as heroin are at high risk of contracting the HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) virus.
  • Nearly 50% of all emergency room admissions from poisonings are attributed to drug abuse or misuse.
  • 8.6 million Americans aged 12 and older reported having used crack.
  • Every day in the US, 2,500 youth (12 to 17) abuse a prescription pain reliever for the first time.
  • Currently 7.1 million adults, over 2 percent of the population in the U.S. are locked up or on probation; about half of those suffer from some kind of addiction to heroin, alcohol, crack, crystal meth, or some other drug but only 20 percent of those addicts actually get effective treatment as a result of their involvement with the judicial system.
  • Local pharmacies often bought - throat lozenges containing Cocaine in bulk and packaged them for sale under their own labels.
  • Many kids mistakenly believe prescription drugs are safer to abuse than illegal street drugs.2
  • Cocaine stays in one's system for 1-5 days.
  • Crack cocaine was introduced into society in 1985.
  • Dilaudid, considered eight times more potent than morphine, is often called 'drug store heroin' on the streets.
  • It is estimated 20.4 million people age 12 or older have tried methamphetamine at sometime in their lives.
  • Anorectic drugs can cause heart problems leading to cardiac arrest in young people.
  • The most dangerous stage of methamphetamine abuse occurs when an abuser has not slept in 3-15 days and is irritable and paranoid. This behavior is referred to as 'tweaking,' and the user is known as the 'tweaker'.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug.

Free non-judgmental advice at

866-720-3784