Overview Drug addiction, also called substance use disorder, is a disease that affects a person’s brain and behavior and leads to an inability to control the use of a legal or illegal drug or medicine. Substances such as alcohol, marijuana and nicotine also are considered drugs. When you’re addicted, you may continue using the drug […]
Overview Alcohol use disorder is a pattern of alcohol use that involves problems controlling your drinking, being preoccupied with alcohol or continuing to use alcohol even when it causes problems. This disorder also involves having to drink more to get the same effect or having withdrawal symptoms when you rapidly decrease or stop drinking. Alcohol […]
Recent advances in psychosocial research and neurosciences have provided new avenues for prevention of substance abuse at the individual and community level. A series of risk and protective factors affecting the likelihood of using and abusing substances have been identified. The scope of prevention has been broadened, allowing the prescription of different interventions for individuals […]
Part 1: Statistics Alcohol Use Disorder: Adults Ages 18 and Older According to the 2023 NSDUH, 28.1 million adults ages 18 and older (10.9% in this age group) had AUD (Alcohol Use Disorder) in the past year. This includes: 16.6 million men ages 18 and older (13.2% in this age group) 11.5 million women ages […]
