provide health care practitioners with the chance to effectively evaluate plans for SUD treatment and prevention.
“If health care providers are aware that the use of certain drugs is trending up, they can be aware of symptoms of use in their patients,” she said.
They added that most addiction disorders in the U.S. are linked to alcohol consumption and that long-term patterns demonstrate a decline in the predominance of disorders associated with alcohol disorders in adults.
“The age of highest use and the highest rate of having a substance use disorder of any kind is young adulthood — 18 to 25,” Johnson said. “We need to continue these successful efforts as well as ensure that we address substance use in young adults via prevention activities that are continued past adolescence; ensuring people that have a problematic use are engaged in care quickly, and supporting recovery from substance use disorders.”
