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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reports that Pennsylvania had a slightly lower than average amount of residents who acknowledged past-month illicit drug use during 2007-2008. In the most recent survey, 6.57 percent of Pennsylvania residents reported using illicit drugs in the past month. The national average was 8.02 percent. Additionally, 3.11 percent of Pennsylvania residents reported using an illicit drug other than marijuana in the past month (the national average was 3.58 percent). Pennsylvania’s Prescription Monitoring Program collects data from approximately 3,000 pharmacies on prescriptions of Schedule II controlled substances. The program, which became operational circa 1973, is managed by the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office. Requests for patient information are limited to law enforcement. During 2007, 1,812 people died in Pennsylvania as a direct consequence of drug use, abuse and addiction problems. Pennsylvania drug-induced deaths (14.6 per 100,000 population) exceeded the national rate (12.7 per 100,000). This number is in comparison to the number of people who died from motor vehicle accidents (1,604) and firearms (1,325) in the same year.

Treatment Episode Data Set reported that during 2010, the primary drug cited during admission into drug rehab was heroin. This was followed closely by marijuana, other opiates, cocaine, other/unknown, tranquilizers, stimulants, PCP, sedatives, hallucinogens and inhalants. Because Pennsylvania’s drug abuse and addiction problem is so severe there are numerous drug rehab options for residents to choose from both in state and across the country. Severe drug addiction and the recovery therefrom requires more intensive treatment than drug abuse or the early stages of addiction. Leaders in the fields of addiction recovery have found with years of experience that long-term, inpatient drug rehab programs are the most effective way of achieving lasting addiction rehabilitation. This form of drug rehab treatment is much more intensive for the recovering drug user. The individual stays at the treatment facility while receiving care and is given support and guidance twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. This form of drug addiction rehabilitation is considered to be the most successful drug rehab method currently available. Research has shown that in general, the more time a person spends in treatment for addiction, the better their success rate. Individuals who participate in long-term drug rehab are typically those with serious health/medical related issues as a result of their drug use and/or they have attended other types of drug rehabilitation with little to no success. The ultimate goal of a rehab program is to enable the individual to achieve lasting sobriety; the short term goal of rehab is to help the individual through detox and withdrawal from drugs. Completing drug rehab is often one of the most challenging yet rewarding accomplishments an addicted person goes though in their lifetime. Experiencing the changes in themselves that they only hoped for when they were deep in their addiction feels as though a huge weight has been lifted off their shoulders. They are able to now take control over themselves and their actions. The changes they go through trickle down into all other areas of their life; improving their health, interpersonal relationships, career and, inevitably their finances too.