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Substance Use Disorders
What is addiction? Addiction also known as a substance use disorder, is treatable. Addiction is a disease that impacts an individual’s brain and results in the inability to control the use of legal or illegal drugs.
Often, individuals who abuse drugs often have underlying issues (i.e., mental health or childhood trauma) that are unresolved. Individuals often lack the necessary coping skills to process through their emotions. Having a substance use disorder can lead to harmful behaviors and disastrous results. It’s never too late to ask for help. Recovery from addiction isn’t easy. Substance use disorders can lead to family, career, and relationship problems, if untreated. If you are struggling with a substance use disorder, help is available.
For the best addiction treatment, trust GPD. We are here to help with sober living and to improve your relationship with addiction. GPD provides the necessary tools to help you beat addiction and succeed in recovery.
GPD provides a comprehensive approach to care and recovery. We offer variety of programs that are created to meet the unique needs of our clients. Our outpatient programs are designed with the client in mind.
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Substance Abuse Statistics
- Among Americans aged 12 years and older, 37.309 million were current illegal drug users (used within the last 30 days) as of 2020.
- 59.277 million or 21.4% of people 12 and over have used illegal drugs or misused prescription drugs within the last year.
- 138.543 million or 50.0% of people aged 12 and over have illicitly used drugs in their lifetime.
- 138.522 million Americans 12 and over drink alcohol.
- 28.320 million or 20.4% of them have an alcohol use disorder.
- 57.277 million people use tobacco or nicotine products (vape).
- 25.4% of illegal drug users have a drug disorder.
- 24.7% of those with drug disorders have an opioid disorder; this includes prescription pain relievers or “pain killers” and heroin).
- 9.7 million or 96.6% of opioid misusers use prescription pain relievers.
- 745,000 or 7.4% of opioid misusers abuse heroin; 404,000 or 4.0% use heroin and prescriptions.
- Hydrocodone is the most popular prescription opioid, with 5.1 million misusers.
- Taking opioids for a period longer than 3 months increases the risk of addiction 15 times- most persons in acute pain rarely need more than 7 days’ worth.
- Accidental drug overdose is a leading cause of death among persons under the age of 45.
- Over 70,000 drug overdose deaths occur in the US annually.
Reference
National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics (n.d.). Retrieved from NCDAS: Substance Abuse and Addiction Statistics [2022] (drugabusestatistics.org) on 2022, December 2.
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