January
The prevalence of substance use disorders (SUD) in the United States was about 8 percent in 2014, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and it is likely higher now, given the opioid crisis. For example, 42,000 people died from prescription and illicit opioids in 2016, the most of any year on record, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and overdose deaths have increased by more than five times since 1999.
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