Friends Hospital - - Pennsylvania

1-877-496-9879

Friends Hospital
Friends Hospital
is located at 4641 Roosevelt Boulevard Philadelphia, PA. 19124 and can be contacted by calling 215-831-4600. Friends Hospital offers treatment services for Prescription Drug Abuse, Alcoholism and Illicit Drug Addiction

Treatment Services Offered: Mental Balance Treatment Services, Inpatient Hospital Treatment, Over 50, Hearing Impaired Clients
Payment Options: Payment Assistance Through Medicaid, Medicare Assistance, Insurance - Private Pay, Insurance - Military, Self Pay

Excessive alcohol use has immediate effects that increase the risk of many harmful health conditions. These immediate effects are most often the result of binge drinking and include the following: Miscarriage and stillbirth among pregnant women, and a combination of physical and mental birth defects among children that last throughout life.
Annually, 400,000 students between the ages 18 and 24 engage in unprotected sex after consuming alcohol and say they wouldn't have done it had they been sober.
Almost 2,000 people under 21 years of age die each year in car crashes in which underage drinking is involved. Alcohol is involved in nearly half of all violent deaths involving teens.
The damage that is reported to be caused by alcohol-acetaminophen interaction is more likely to occur when acetaminophen is taken after, rather than before, the liquor has been metabolized. Drinking alcohol affects the metabolism of a wide variety of other medications, increasing the activity of some and diminishing the activity of others, thereby decreasing their effectiveness.

For more information, visit www.drug-rehabs.org.