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National survey shows data on adolescent mental health, substance use trends
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30416
Subject(s) - mental health , substance use , substance abuse , psychiatry , psychology , illicit drug , perception , substance abuse treatment , environmental health , medicine , drug , neuroscience
The 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) released in August shows that there is a treatment gap for mental health, particularly for co‐occurring mental and substance use disorders. Among other findings, the report, which has been conducted for four decades for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, found that perception of risk from weekly marijuana use keeps going down as regular use keeps going up, among young people in particular.