Highlights from the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
Background:
The NSDUH is an annual nationwide survey involving interviews with approximately 70,000 randomly selected individuals aged 12 and older. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which funds NSDUH, is an agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Data from the NSDUH provide national and state-level estimates on the use of tobacco products, alcohol, illicit drugs (including non-medical use of prescription drugs) and mental health in the United States. In keeping with past studies, these data continue to provide the drug prevention, treatment, and research communities with current, relevant information on the status of the nation’s drug usage.
Highlights:
27.0 million people aged 12 or older used an illicit drug in the past 30 days, which corresponds to about 1 in 10 Americans This percentage in 2014 was higher than those in every year from 2002 through 2013.
Approximately 21.5 million people aged 12 or older had a substance use disorder in the past year, including 17 million people with an alcohol use disorder, 7.1 million with an illicit drug use disorder, and 2.6 million who had both an alcohol use and an illicit drug use disorder.
An estimated 22.2 million Americans aged 12 or older were
current users of marijuana.
About 3.3% of all adults had both any mental illness and a substance abuse disorder in the past year, and 1% had both serious mental illness and a substance use disorder.
For more information visit: http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-FRR1-2014/NSDUH-FRR1-2014.pdf
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