Substance Use Statistics 2024. 8.95% of youth in the u.s. A new report from the world health organization (who) highlights that 2.6 million deaths per year were attributable to alcohol consumption, accounting for 4.7% of.
Among people aged 12 or older in 2021, 61.2 million people (or 21.9 percent of the population) used illicit drugs in the past. Overdose rates in the united states have reached alarming levels in recent years, fueled primarily by opioids, including both prescription pain medications.