Category: Estimates

Overall Estimates of Addiction Drug Rehab Need

In 2000, an estimated 4.7 million people aged 12 or older (2.1 percent of the total population) needed addiction treatment for an illicit drug abuse problem. This includes 2.8 million classified by the survey with illicit drug dependence, 1.5 million classified with illicit drug abuse, and another 0.3 million who received specialty addiction treatment but […]