U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Addiction

Goal: Reduce drug and alcohol addiction.

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More than 20 million people in the United States have a substance use disorder, and most of them don’t get the treatment they need.1 Healthy People 2030 focuses on preventing substance use disorders — like drug or alcohol addiction — and helping people with these disorders get treatment.

Substance use disorders are linked to many health problems and can lead to overdose and death. Deaths from opioid use disorder in particular have increased dramatically in recent years.

Strategies to prevent drug and alcohol use at the school, family, and community level are key to reducing substance use disorders. Increasing non-opioid pain management may also help prevent opioid use disorder. And interventions to help people with substance use disorders get treatment can help reduce related health problems and deaths.

Objective Status

  • 0 Target met or exceeded
  • 1 Improving
  • 4 Little or no detectable change
  • 0 Getting worse
  • 0 Baseline only
  • 3 Developmental
  • 0 Research

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Related Objectives

The following is a sample of objectives related to this topic. Some objectives may include population data.

Drug and Alcohol Use

Reduce the proportion of people who had opioid use disorder in the past year — SU‑18
Improving
Increase the proportion of people with a substance use disorder who got treatment in the past year — SU‑01
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of people who had alcohol use disorder in the past year — SU‑13
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of people who had marijuana use disorder in the past year — SU‑14
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of people who had drug use disorder in the past year — SU‑15
Little or no detectable change
Increase the number of admissions to substance use treatment for injection drug use — SU‑D01
Developmental
Increase the proportion of people who get a referral for substance use treatment after an emergency department visit — SU‑D02
Developmental
Increase the rate of people with an opioid use disorder getting medications for addiction treatment — SU‑D03
Developmental

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References

1.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2014). Results from the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings. Retrieved from https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUHresultsPDFWHTML2013/Web/NSDUHresults2013.pdf [PDF - 3.4 MB]