Prevalence and Incidence of Drug abuse
Prevalance of Drug abuse:
more than 4 million women need treatment for drug abuse (NWHIC) ... see also overview of Drug abuse.
Prevalance Rate:
approx 1 in 68 or 1.47% or 4 million people in USA [Source statistic for calcuation: "more than 4 million women need treatment for drug abuse (NWHIC)" -- see also general information about data sources]
Prevalance of types of Drug abuse:
For details see prevalence of types of Drug abuse analysis; summary of available prevalence data:
- alcoholism: estimated 15.1 million people: 15.1 million alcohol-abusing or alcohol-dependent individuals and 4.6 million are women (NWHIC); nearly 14 million Americans (NIAAA)
- more types of Drug abuse...»
Drug abuse Prevalence: Book Excerpts
Prevalance of Drug abuse:
Research indicates that more than 4 million women need treatment for
drug abuse. (Source: excerpt from Drug Abuse and Treatment: NWHIC)
Prevelance statistics for Drug abuse:
The following statistics relate to the prevalence of Drug abuse:
- 19.5 million people over the age of 12 use illegal drugs in the US (Mayo Clinic)
- 19,000 deaths from drug addiction in the US (Mayo Clinic)
- more statistics...»
More Statistics about Drug abuse:
Deaths and related statistics
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Prevalence/Incidence of Drug abuse: Online Medical Books
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Alcohol-related disorder:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Numerous biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors appear to be involved in alcohol addiction. An offspring of one parent with alcohol-related disorder is seven to eight times more likely to become an alcoholic than is a peer without such a parent. Biological factors may include genetic or biochemical abnormalities, nutritional deficiencies, endocrine imbalances, and allergic responses.
Psychological factors may include the urge to drink alcohol to reduce anxiety or symptoms of mental illness; the desire to avoid responsibility in familial, social, and work relationships; and the need to bolster self-esteem.
Sociocultural factors include the availability of alcoholic beverages, group or peer pressure, an excessively stressful lifestyle, and social attitudes that approve of frequent drinking.
More than 15% of American adults have a problem with alcohol use, and about 5% to 10% of male and 3% to 5% of female drinkers are alcohol dependent, accounting for about 12.5 million people. Alcohol-related disorder cuts across all social and economic groups, involves both sexes, and occurs at all stages of the life cycle, beginning as early as elementary school.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Heroin Intoxication:
Heroin Intoxication - epidemiology
(The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult)
- Neonatal:
- Fetal exposure commonly involves polysubstance abuse.
- 60–80% of heroin-exposed infants develop withdrawal—dependent on maternal dosing and length of use.
- Adolescents:
- Use peaked among US adolescents in the 1970s and then declined.
- Use is increasing again because a more pure product allows for smoking or snorting as well as injecting.
- Most use experimentally or intermittently; few become addicted and use daily.
- Use of opioid analgesics has increased dramatically over the last 10 years, and has become more common than heroin use.
- Overdose:
- Up to 1/3 of heroin users experience nonfatal overdose.
- Most occur in the home and with other people present.
- Risk factors include length of injecting history and concurrent use of CNS depressants.
- Deaths:
- Most heroin deaths occur when drug administered IV.
- Most deaths in patients in their late 20s or 30s, with significant drug dependence
- Multiple drug use common in heroin-related death
- Many deaths occur in people with a history of a nonfatal overdose.
Heroin Intoxication - incidence
- Statistically significant increase in new heroin use since 1992
- 141,000 new users in 1995
- Mean age of 1st use in 1995 = 19.3
Heroin Intoxication - prevalence
- Precise estimates of prevalence of use difficult
- ~2.9 million people used at least once
- ~633,000 used in last year
- Prevalence of fetal exposure <1–3.7%
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Source: The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, 2008
About prevalence and incidence statistics:
The term 'prevalence' of Drug abuse usually refers to the estimated population
of people who are managing Drug abuse at any given time.
The term 'incidence' of Drug abuse refers to the annual diagnosis rate,
or the number of new cases of Drug abuse diagnosed each year.
Hence, these two statistics types can differ:
a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence,
but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence.
For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.
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