Mental health as a risk factor for illicit drug dependency or abuse
Increased risk of developing an illicit drug dependency or abuse disorder in individuals with a given mental health disorder, relative to those without. A value of 3.9 forPTSD, for example, would indicate that individuals with PTSD are 3.9 times as likely to develop drug dependency relative to those without.
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- Alcohol and drug use disorders as a share of total disease burden
- Alcohol and drug use disorders death rateWHO
- Alcohol and drug use disorders death rateIHME
- Alcohol and drug use disorders death rate by age
- Alcohol and drug use disorders deathsWHO
- Alcohol and drug use disorders deathsWHO, by substance
- Alcohol and drug use disorders deathsIHME
- Alcohol and drug use disorders deaths by ageWHO
- Alcohol and drug use disorders deaths by ageIHME
- Alcohol and drug use disorders deaths by sex
- Amphetamine use disorder death rateWHO
- Amphetamine use disorder death rateIHME, age-standardized
- Amphetamine use disorder death rate by age
- Amphetamine use disorder deaths by sex
- Cocaine use disorder death rateWHO
- Cocaine use disorder death rateIHME, age-standardized
- Cocaine use disorder death rate by age
- Cocaine use disorder deaths by sex
- Deaths attributed to drug useIHME
- Deaths attributed to drug use by age
- Deaths attributed to tobacco, alcohol and drugs
- Deaths from illicit drugs
- Drug overdose death rate by drug typeUnited States (CDC WONDER)
- Drug use disorder death rateWHO
- Drug use disorder death rateIHME
- Drug use disorder death rateIHME, age-standardized
- Drug use disorder death rateWHO, slope chart
- Drug use disorder deathsWHO, by type of drug
- Drug use disorder deathsIHME
- Drug use disorder deathsWHO
- Drug use disorder deathsIHME, by type of drug
- Drug use disorder deaths by ageWHO
- Drug use disorder deaths by ageIHME
- Drug use disorder deaths by sex
- Mental health and substance use disorders death rateWHO
- Mental health and substance use disorders death rate by ageIHME
- Mental health and substance use disorders death rate by age groupWHO
- Mental health and substance use disorders deathsIHME
- Mental health and substance use disorders deathsWHO
- Mental health and substance use disorders: death rateIHME
- Number of people with alcohol or drug use disorders
- Number of people with drug use disorders
- Number with a drug use disorder by substance
- Opioid use disorder death rateIHME, age-standardized
- Opioid use disorder death rateWHO
- Opioid use disorder death rate by age
- Opioid use disorder deaths by sex
- Prevalence of drug use disorders by age
- Prevalence of drug use disorders, males vs. females
- Prevalence of substance use disorders across age groups
- Rate of deaths attributed to drug useIHME
- Rate of deaths attributed to drug useIHME, age-standardized
- Rate of disease burden from drug use disordersWHO
- Rate of disease burden from drug use disordersIHME
- Share of population with alcohol use disorder vs. drug use disorder
- Share of population with drug use disorders
- Share of the population with alcohol or drug use disorders
- Share with alcohol or drug use disorders, men vs. women
- Substance use disorder deathsWHO
- Substance use disorder deathsIHME
- Substance use disorder deathsIHME, drugs dissagregated