Annual Percent of Adult Drug Court Participants Self-Reporting Opioids as Drug of Choice By County and Discharged Year

This indicator includes the count and rate of the court of common pleas cases and PHILADELPHIA MUNICIPAL COURT cases with a conviction of offense code 35 P.S. § 780-113(a)(30) and a specified opioid drug per 1,000 court cases in the state of Pennsylvania as well as its counties. This offense code charges defendants with the manufacture or delivery or possession with intent to manufacture or delivery of unlawful substances. Other break downs include by gender and age group along with percentages where rate is not available. This indicator also includes the count of adult drug court cases from the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC) online dashboard. Drug court cases were counted as opioid related if they listed an opioid as the drug of choice. Drug court data is aggregated to annual counts by state and county.