{"id":50903,"date":"2014-10-18T12:14:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T12:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/?p=50903"},"modified":"2023-06-23T16:14:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T21:14:34","slug":"alarming-statistics-on-drug-use-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/blogs\/alarming-statistics-on-drug-use-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarming Statistics on Drug use in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In 2013, 8.9% of full time workers admitted to current illicit drug use, this is alarming.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Results from the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>24.6 million current illicit drug users, 9.4 % of the polulation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>7 out of 10 reported that their first drug was marijuana<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>68.9% employed full time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8.9% of American workers admitted to current illicit drug use<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marijuana was by far the most commonly used illicit drug with approximately 19.8 million current users aged 12 and older.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/\">Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration<\/a>\u00a0(SAMHSA) recently released the results of the 2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nsduhweb.rti.org\/respweb\/homepage.cfm\">National Survey on Drug Use and Health<\/a>\u00a0(NSDUH). NSDUH, the Nation\u2019s largest survey of drug use and drug-related attitudes, perceptions and consequences, interviews approximately 70,000 Americans who are 12 and older. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/blog\/2014\/09\/05\/2013-national-report-drug-use-and-health\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/blog\/2014\/09\/05\/2013-national-report-drug-use-and-health\">Click Here<\/a>\u00a0to read the overview report released on 09\/04\/2014 regarding the 2013\u00a0National Survey on Drug Use and Health\u00a0(NSDUH). \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, 8.9% of full time workers admitted to current illicit drug use, this is alarming. Results from the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings The\u00a0Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration\u00a0(SAMHSA) recently released the results of the 2013\u00a0National Survey on Drug Use and Health\u00a0(NSDUH). NSDUH, the Nation\u2019s largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":51834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"50935,50870,51391,50862,50901,50858","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldrugscreening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}