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The 2023 NSDUH Report includes the following selected key findings. Mental Health: Among adults aged 18 or older in 2023, 22.8% (or 58.7 million people) had any mental illness (AMI) in the past year. 4.5 million youth (ages 12 to 17) had a major depressive episode in the past year, of which nearly 1 in 5 also had a substance use disorder. Among ...
Conducted by the federal government since 1971, the NSDUH is a primary source of statistical information on substance use and mental health of the U.S. civilian, noninstitutionalized population 12 or older. The NSDUH measures: Use of illegal drugs, prescription drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, Substance use disorder and substance use treatment,
Contact: HHS Press Office. 202-690-6343 media@hhs.gov. HHS, SAMHSA Release 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health Data. Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), released the results of the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).
Mitigating the opioid and substance abuse epidemics ravaging our country is a major priority of the Surgeon General. The Surgeon General is also championing efforts to prevent drug use, overdose, and addiction infectious disease, and more fully leverage public health, business, law enforcement, and community resources to address these issues ...
These data collections are available as online databases, which provide public access to ad hoc queries, summary statistics, maps, charts, and data extracts. National Recovery Month (September) Raise awareness and understanding of mental and substance use disorders and celebrate the people who are recovering.
Download the Report. Unless policymakers take action in 2022 to update rules and laws that are enabling our worsening overdose epidemic, more Americans will die, and more families will suffer preventable tragedies. The stakes are high. Drug-overdose deaths are an epidemic in the U.S., touching virtually every state.
HHS, through SAMHSA, awarded $5.54 million to recovery community organizations under the Building Communities of Recovery program to mobilize and connect a broad base of community-based resources to increase the prevalence and quality of long-term recovery support for people with substance use disorders and co-occurring substance use and mental ...
Updated November 2024. The nation’s drug overdose and death epidemic has killed more than one million Americans in the past 25 years. The epidemic affects every state and continues to be driven by illicitly manufactured fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine, often in combination or in adulterated forms.
Goal 1: Establish effective, broad-based, collaborative, and sustainable suicide prevention partnerships. Goal 2: Support upstream comprehensive community-based suicide prevention. Goal 3: Reduce access to lethal means among people at risk of suicide. Goal 4: Conduct postvention and support people with suicide-centered lived experience.
Canada and the U.S. have published a white paper, Substance Use and Harms During COVID-19 and Approaches to Federal Surveillance and Response, that examines rapid and innovative approaches used by both countries to monitor substance use trends during the pandemic, including: The HHS Overdose Prevention Strategy focuses on primary prevention ...