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Alcohol and Drug Abuse Statistics (Facts About Addiction)
May 3, 2016Quick Facts on Drug Addiction According to the 2023 United States National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH): 48.5 million (16.7%) Americans (aged 12 and older) battled a substance use disorder in the past year.1 10.2% of Americans 12 and older had an alcohol use disorder in the past year.1 About 27.2 million Americans […]
Addiction Recovery Statistics: Does Drug Rehab Work?
Dec 8, 2015How Effective is Rehab? In 2022, nearly 108,000 people died in the United States from drug-involved overdoses.1 That’s almost 296 people a day. Additionally, from 1981-2022, unintentional poisoning (from drug overdoses) had become the number one cause of injury-related death in the United States.2 Though it’s difficult to measure, it’s clear that people do recover […]