Drug Addiction in South Dakota

Drug Rehab in South Dakota Dominated by wildlands and patchworks of farms, South Dakota has had increasing difficulty with a decreasing population due to ever-popular rural flight, or the pattern of people giving up on living outside of cities and metropolitan areas.

People leaving in remote locales such as are found in South Dakota for a lot of reasons, and one of them may well be the availability of illicit substances. South Dakota is far away from the many distribution hubs for major drug traffickers in America, so addictions to heroin and cocaine tend to be relatively few and far between in most parts of the state, including what amounts to urban areas such as Sioux Falls and Rapid City. This means that drug addiction comes in forms different from many more heavily populated parts of the country. Methamphetamine and prescription drug use are popular forms of substance abuse. The first is often manufactured by local ilegal home labs and the second is available legally, both enough to sustain a chronic addiction. This is especially true with the abuse of prescription narcotics such as Vicodin and Adderall which are often very easy to get a prescription for and then abuse.

Alcholism in Native American Populations

But the main problem afflicting South Dakota is alcohol. This is not just because of availablity but also because of the high alcohol rate amongst heavily impoverished Indian reservations. Native Americans still comprise up to 9% of the state's population and yet reservations often have unemployment as high as 80%. While it is certainly no longer the case that Native Americans have no resistance to alcohol and become addicted, alcoholism and other drug abuse amongst Native Americans is a different but tragic situation. Native Americans have few if any job prospects, their reservations are isolated from most of the world, and are rife with violence and gang activity. Native Americans are 2 to 3 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than the average American.

Alcoholism accounts for as much as 90% of the admissions to addiction treatment in this state, a chronic statistic which has not changed much in recent years unlike many other states that have seen huge influxes of prescription drug addicts in their areas. That is not to say it is not a problem, too, but the fact is that easy to find drugs like alcohol are in popular demand in remote and impoverished areas almost anywhere in the world. If you or someone you know are dealing with these problems, there are still places that can help no matter where you are. Reach out to us to see what programs are available to help nearby.

South Dakota cities with high drug abuse trends: Sioux City, Rapid Falls, Aberdeen, Watertown, Brookings, Yankton, and Mitchell

South Dakota counties with statistically high substance abuse: Minnehaha, Pennington, Lincoln, Brown, Brookings, Codington, and Lawrence

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