Health Statistics: Alcohol / Substance Abuse

Includes alcohol basics, special populations, and getting help.

Up-to-date statistics on alcohol consumption.

Statistical summaries of data collected or compiled by NIAAA on alcohol consumption, alcohol-related mortality and morbidity, and other alcohol-related problems and consequences.

Plain language research summaries.

Covers a wide range of legal and illicit drugs (alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, synthetic drugs, and others) and the trajectories, patterns, and consequences of drug use as well as related predictors and outcomes.

Resources covering a variety of drug related issues, including information on drug usage, emergency room data, prevention and treatment programs, and other research findings.

Provides public-use data files, file documentation, and access to restricted-use data files to support a better understanding of this critical area of public health.

Nationwide public health surveillance system that will improve ED monitoring of substance use crises, including those related to opioids.

Provides the mechanism for quantifying the dynamic character and composition of the US substance abuse treatment delivery system.

Primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug use and abuse and mental disorders in the US civilian, non-institutionalized population, age 12 and older.

Contains records on admissions aged 12 or older, and includes information on admission demographics (age, sex, race/ethnicity, employment status, etc.) and substance abuse characteristics (substances used, age at first use, route of use, frequency of use, number of prior admissions, etc.). TEDS-A records the admissions, and TEDS-D records the discharges.

Collects, analyzes, and reports data on extent, patterns and trends in drug use and its health consequences through the Annual Reports Questionnaires (ARQ) submitted by Member States.

Works with governments to assist them in generating and analysing data on the situation with respect to amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) and new psychoactive substances (NPS).

Reference point on drugs and drug addiction information in Europe.

Access top-level overviews of the drug situation by country in all EMCDDA reporting countries, covering drug supply, use and public health problems as well as drug policy and responses.

International Narcotics Control Board

FastStats – Statistics by Topic

The world’s largest, on-going telephone health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States yearly since 1984. Currently, data are collected monthly in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam.

Set of surveillance indicators that enables public health professionals and policymakers to retrieve uniformly defined state and selected metropolitan-level data for chronic diseases and risk factors that have a substantial impact on public health.

FastStats – Statistics by Topic

FastStats – Statistics by Topic

Monitors health-related behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults.

Rates of students’ alcohol consumption, including binge and heavy drinking, and negative consequences to students’ alcohol use, including deaths, assaults, and sexual assault/date rape.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Explore household characteristics that contribute to health. Includes measures on children in poverty, poverty (ages 65+), food insecurity, excessive drinking, unemployment, per capita income, concentrated disadvantage, and high school completion.

Examine measures of alcohol use, disease and related causes of death. Includes cognitive difficulty (ages 65+), high blood pressure, premature death, falls (ages 65+), early death (ages 65-74), occupational fatalities, chlamydia, excessive drinking, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and depression.

Unhealthy behaviors are frequently related to each other either because they are done at the same time or one leads to another. Explore more about these behaviors that include tobacco use (youth), smoking, excessive drinking, cannabis use, non-medical use of prescription opioids, illicit opioid use, illicit drug use (excluding opioids and cannabis), non-medical drug use (past year), and e-cigarette use.

Find out more about how drug use and drug deaths vary. Includes measures on suicide, premature death, frequent mental distress, drug deaths, non-medical use of prescription opioids, illicit opioid use, and non-medical drug use (past year).

See more about household characteristics that contribute to health. Includes measures on drug deaths, children in poverty, food insecurity, unemployment, cannabis use, per capita income, non-medical use of prescription opioids, illicit opioid use, illicit drug use (excluding opioids and cannabis), non-medical drug use (past year), concentrated disadvantage, and high school completion.

Explore different measures of excessive drinking, including separate measures for ages 65+ and women.

Unhealthy behaviors are often related to each other because they are done together or one leads to another. Explore more about these behaviors. Includes measures on teen births, insufficient sleep, smoking, physical inactivity, excessive drinking, non-medical drug use (past year), e-cigarette use, high-risk HIV behaviors, fruit and vegetable consumption, and exercise.