Mental Health & Substance Use Disorder Statistics

Did you know?

• According to the National Dialogue on Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders (1998), co-occurring substance use disorders and mental health conditions affect millions of individuals in the U.S. each year
  
  
• Kessler's (1995) analysis estimates that three million individuals are affected by three disorders, and one million individuals have four or more disorders.
  
  
• Kenneth Minkoff, one of the nation's leading experts on co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders, states that co-occurrence is the "expectation, not the exception." (Minkhoff, 1998)
  
  
• 43% of youth who receive mental health services have been diagnosed with a co-occurring disorder (Report To Congress on the Prevention & Treatment of Co-occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorders, 2002 & CMHS, 2001)
  
  
• Research supports that every $1 invested in substance abuse treatment saves $7 in medical and other social costs (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1999).
  
  
• Drake, Osher, & Wallach (1991) estimate that 10-20% of the homeless have severe and persistent psychiatric illnesses and substance-related disorders.
  
  
• The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) estimates that 82% of prison inmates have a history of a mental health disorder, and 81.6% of this group also had a substance-related disorder (Regier et al., 1990).