The residential treatment program in Pennsylvania is a very stringent form of treatment. This program is quite aggressive in the sense it totally cuts the patient off from everything that is familiar to him or her. The patient is made to stay away from family and preferably in a different kind of setting than he or she is used too. All this may seem to be too harsh, but in reality, the program is made for people who are in very strong forms of drug addiction in Pennsylvania.

This program is meant for the following kinds of people:-

1. People who have undergone a detox treatment in Pennsylvania but are still quite apprehensive about their condition. This happens when the patient has been in an addiction for a long time and needs specific treatment.
2. People who have hit bottom due to their addiction. This could have happened because of a spell of hospitalization due to some kind of ailment that sprung out of the addiction. It that happens, the patient will be first led through the treatment for the health complication along with the detox and then the patient will be put into a form of residential addiction treatment in Pennsylvania.
3. People who have been apprehended of crimes committed under the influence of drugs will be ordered by the drug courts to attend a residential treatment program. These people will stay for a long time in the treatment center too, during which an attempt is made to bring them completely out of addiction.