Facts
- Use of PCP can result in addiction and dependency, and its repeated use can lead to craving and compulsive PCP-seeking behavior, despite severe adverse consequences.
- Opiates act directly on the respiratory center in the brainstem, causing a slow in activity resulting in a decrease in breathing rate.
- Methadone used in opiate maintenance therapy was originally developed to help obliterate withdrawal symptoms and support a healthy lifestyle. However, the effects of withdrawal far exceed that of heroin which causes the individual to become addicted to it instead.
- Only a fragment of the morphine used in the U.S. that is derived from opium is used as morphine, while the remaining amount is converted to codeine and other morphine derivatives.
North Georgetown - Other LanguagesWhile searching for a drug rehab to attend can seem to be an overwhelming task, finding one that offers services for other languages is an added challenge. However, today many treatment centers employ staff members who are bilingual. When you have located a program that meets your needs, speak to their staff about the possibility of delivering their services other languages during treatment. Although 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.