Facts
- Specific populations of American Indian adolescents who completed programs which incorporated peer counseling, enhancing adolescents' coping skills, and alcohol education were found to use less alcohol than their counterparts who did not complete the program.
- When someone stops taking crystal meth they often experience long periods of sleep and increased appetite because most users go on a "run", taking drugs for one or more days in a row and don't sleep or eat.
- The number of suicide-related prescription opioid/sedative overdoses between 1999 and 2006 in the U.S. rose by 130 percent.
- Withdrawal from stimulants such as typically takes one to two weeks.
Chaplin, KY. - Other LanguagesWhile finding a drug rehab to attend can seem like a difficult task, discovering one that provides services for other languages is an added challenge. However, these days many programs employ staff members who are bilingual. When you have discovered a program that meets your needs, speak to their staff about the likelihood of delivering their services other languages during treatment. Even though they may not initially have the capability to offer their services in other languages they may perhaps be able to find a way to accommodate your needs. Often the rehab program will do its best to to provide special services in order to help everybody they can.