Where Can I Find Statistics About Drug Addiction in the United States?

Published March 29, 2014

Question by Dre D: where can I find statistics about drug addiction in the United States?
like how many people in the U.S. are addicts?

Best answer:

Answer by grundlegoat
thats kind of tricky because a lot of addicts don’t think they are addicts because they have prescriptions, don’t know they have a problem, or just aren’t ready to admit they have a problem.

http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofacts/Infofaxindex.html
http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/nhsda.htm

are you also wanting to count recovering addicts? because we are still addicts – just not in active addiction

Answer by Rosebudd
check out C.D.C. website or DEA.

Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice System — Fewer than 1 out of 100 Americans are imprisoned in the United States. But nearly one fourth of young black men are incarcerated in U.S. state and federal pr…

More Drug Addiction Statistics Information…