SAMHSA Report on Substance Use and Mental Health Conditions Is Released

According to a recently released report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 24.6 million Americans aged 12 or older had used illegal drugs (mostly commonly marijuana) in the previous month – this is 9.4 percent of this age group. In addition, the report notes that 34.6 million adults aged 18 or older (14.6 percent of this population) had received mental health treatment or counseling in the previous 12 months. “Nearly one in five American adults (18.5 percent), or 43.8 million adults, had a mental illness in 2013,” according to the report. “Ten million adults (4.2 percent of the adult population) had a serious mental illness in the past year. Serious mental illness is defined as mental illness that resulted in serious functional impairment, which substantially interfered with, or limited, one or more major life activities.” The report is available by clicking here.