The
NSDUH Report: Adults with Co-Occurring Serious Mental Illness and
a Substance Use Disorder Highlights
- SAMHSA's
2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that 17.5 million adults aged
18 or older (8%) were estimated to have a serious mental illness in the past year.
About 4 million of the adults with a serious mental illness in 2002 also were
dependent on or abused alcohol or an illicit drug; that is, they had a co-occurring
substance abuse and mental disorder.
- More
than half of the adults with co-occurring serious mental illness and a substance
use disorder received neither specialty substance use treatment nor mental health
treatment during the past year.
Reports
on Drugs Other
Topics
This Short Report, The
NSDUH Report: Adults
with Co-Occurring Serious Mental Illness and a Substance Use Disorder
, is based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug
Use and Health, formerly called the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
(NHSDA) conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS)
in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NHSDA/NSDUH) is the primary source
of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol
use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age
12 and older. The NHSDA/NSDUH also provides
estimates for drug use by state.
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