To honor Recovery Month in Pennsylvania, the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) Secretary Jen Smith ’04 signed up with Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania’s president, Dr. Charles E. Patterson, professors, alumni and trainees to highlight the significance of available assistances for people in recovery from substance use disorder (SUD) at the college level.
National Recovery Month is observed throughout the month of September to acknowledge the gains made in the lives of people living in recovery from SUD and reveal that every day, people can and do recuperate. The 2022 National Recovery Month style is “Recovery is For Everybody: Everyone, Every Family, Every Community.”
” People can and do recuperate from the illness of addiction, consisting of young people. We have actually found out in current years the addiction crisis does not discriminate by age and one of the hardest struck group of folks in Pennsylvania are generally college-aged grownups aged 18-30,” stated DDAP Secretary Jen Smith. “Partners at post-secondary organizations are crucial to ensuring recovery assistances are available to those on school who require them. It is humbling to return to my own university, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, to see first-hand their Recovery Resource Area.”
The university’s Recovery Resource Area is incorporated within the Raider Health Resource Center, which is focused on supplying resources, programming, and services focused in holistic health in cooperation with trainees, staff, and professors. The Recovery Resource Area uses trainings, speakers, workshops, peer-led support system, and drop-in resources consisting of recommendations.
” We are honored to welcome Secretary Smith to Shippensburg University as we acknowledge NationalRecovery Month We are devoted to the success of our trainees in recovery and happy of the work taking place in our Recovery Resource Area. We will continue to focus on a network of assistance on our school and within our community that provides the resources and support they require,” stated Dr. Charles E. Patterson, president of Shippensburg University.
According to information from the National Study on Drug Use and Health, in 2020, the portion of people with a substance use disorder in the previous year was greatest amongst those 18 to 25 years of ages at 24.4%, amounting to 8.2 million people.
In Addition, while there is information pointing to a reduction in illegal drug use amongst pre-college teenagers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, an analysis released in April in the Journal of the American Medical Association discovered that the death rate from drug overdoses increased by 94% in between 2019 and 2020 amongst U.S. teenagers 14 to 18 years of ages.
” We continue to face an progressively powerful and lethal drug supply. We should broaden on what we understand works and continue to boost prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery supports at every level, every day,” stated Smith. “The Wolf Administration’s efforts go far beyond this month.”
Because Guv Tom Wolf took workplace, his administration has actually positioned a heavy focus on decreasing preconception, magnifying primary prevention efforts, reinforcing Pennsylvania’s drug and alcohol treatment system, and empowering continual recovery by:
- Executing Life Unites Us, the very first-of- its-kind, evidence-based preconception decrease project which reached almost 4 million Pennsylvanians in year one,
- Gathering more than 1 million pounds of prescription medication throughout more than 889 take-back boxes in all 67 Pennsylvania counties,
- Introducing Pennsylvania’s Get Help Now Hotline, which has actually linked an typical of 21 Pennsylvanians per day straight to substance use disorder treatment,
- Broadening gain access to to naloxone in communities through Pennsylvania’s standing order, complimentary circulation days, and mail-order naloxone program,
- Executing Warm Handoff Programs in 95 percent of Pennsylvania’s hospitals and referring more than 27,000 people to SUD treatment through those programs,
- Increasing gain access to to medication-assisted treatment and treatment for uninsured and underinsured people with SUD,
- Granting over $14 million in federal financing to recovery community companies, and
- Broadening a brand-new, complimentary, and private SUD treatment locator resource, Addiction Treatment Locator, Evaluation, and Standards Platform ( ATLAS) to Pennsylvania.
People looking for substance use disorder treatment options or resources for themselves, or a loved one can call DDAP’s Get Help Now Hotline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357 ). This helpline is complimentary and private and readily available 24 hr a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.