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

  • Methadone is a highly addictive drug, at least as addictive as heroin.
  • Stimulants are found in every day household items such as tobacco, nicotine and daytime cough medicine.
  • The most commonly abused prescription drugs are pain medications, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety medications and stimulants (used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders).1
  • Ecstasy is sometimes mixed with substances such as rat poison.
  • Street gang members primarily turn cocaine into crack cocaine.
  • LSD disrupts the normal functioning of the brain, making you see images, hear sounds and feel sensations that seem real but aren't.
  • Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal extremely painful.
  • The drug is toxic to the neurological system, destroying cells containing serotonin and dopamine.
  • Methadone accounts for nearly one third of opiate-associated deaths.
  • Ironically, young teens in small towns are more likely to use crystal meth than teens raised in the city.
  • Crack, the most potent form in which cocaine appears, is also the riskiest. It is between 75% and 100% pure, far stronger and more potent than regular cocaine.
  • Crack causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the oppositeintense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug.
  • Heroin is known on the streets as: Smack, horse, black, brown sugar, dope, H, junk, skag, skunk, white horse, China white, Mexican black tar
  • Heroin can be sniffed, smoked or injected.
  • Substance abuse costs the health care system about $11 billion, with overall costs reaching $193 billion.
  • A heroin overdose causes slow and shallow breathing, blue lips and fingernails, clammy skin, convulsions, coma, and can be fatal.
  • Heroin was commercially developed by Bayer Pharmaceutical and was marketed by Bayer and other companies (c. 1900) for several medicinal uses including cough suppression.
  • Ecstasy use has been 12 times more prevalent since it became known as club drug.
  • Teens who start with alcohol are more likely to try cocaine than teens who do not drink.
  • Cocaine is one of the most dangerous and potent drugs, with the great potential of causing seizures and heart-related injuries such as stopping the heart, whether one is a short term or long term user.

Free non-judgmental advice at

866-720-3784