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Recognizing September as National Recovery Month in Philadelphia and celebrating the 20th Annual PRO-ACT Recovery Walks! to promote recovery and work to end the stigma surrounding drug and alcohol addiction.
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WHEREAS, September 2021 marks the 32nd Annual National Recovery Month. This month celebrates the gains people with mental and/or substance use disorders have made towards living healthy and rewarding lives by utilizing substance use treatment and mental health services. The 2020 National Recovery Month theme is "Join the Voices for Recovery: Celebrating Connections" which reminds people in recovery and those who support them, that we all have victories to celebrate and this year, as we face the challenges of a global pandemic, those connections are more important than ever; and
WHEREAS, According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 47.6 million American adults, or 19.1% of American adults, experience mental illness. Meanwhile, 20.3 million Americans aged 12 or older, or about 7% of the population, have a substance use disorder. Of these, 9.2 million American adults have co-occurring mental and substance use disorders; and
WHEREAS, In 2020, drug overdoses killed 1,214 Philadelphians, marking the City's second-highest drug death toll on record. According to the Department of Health, 86% of overdose fatalities involved opioids, a class of drugs that include pharmaceutical opioids, heroin, and fentanyl, a strong synthetic opioid that is the main driver of fatal overdoses. While fentanyl was involved in less than 10% of drug overdose deaths in Philadelphia in 2010, it was involved in 81% of all drug overdose deaths in 2020; and
WHEREAS, Millions of Americans have transformed their lives through recovery. Each September, tens of thousands of prevention, treatment, and recovery programs and facilities celebrate the accomplishments made by those who have sought treatment....
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