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PAIN IN THE NATION 2024: THE EPIDEMICS OF ALCOHOL, DRUG, AND SUICIDE DEATHS

A decrease in the alcohol-induced mortality rate led to a slightly lower
combined rate of all U.S. deaths due to alcohol, drugs, and suicide in 2022, but
the long-term trend of such deaths is still alarmingly high.



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Rhea Farberman rfarberman@tfah.org


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Pain in the Nation: Full Report Press Release in English Press Release in
Spanish State-by-State Fact Sheets Pain in the Nation Microsite

(Washington, DC – July 31, 2024) – TFAH’s Pain in the Nation report series
tracks levels of alcohol, drug, and suicide deaths nationally and for population
groups. This 2024 edition, reporting on 2022 data, found that a decrease in the
alcohol-induced mortality rate led to a slightly lower combined rate of all U.S.
deaths due to substance misuse and suicide, but the long-term trend of such
fatalities is still alarmingly high.

Between 2002 and 2022, combined rate of deaths due to alcohol, drugs, and
suicide have increased by 142 percent from 74,003 deaths in 2002 to 207,827
deaths in 2022.

For 2022, the alcohol-induced mortality rate decreased by six percent to 13.5
deaths per 100,000 people, the first decrease in the rate after more than a
decade of increases, but death rates for drug overdose and suicide remained
unchanged.



 

Rates and trends for deaths due to substance misuse and suicide vary across
population groups and states and regions of the country. While all population
groups have experienced increases in substance misuse and suicide deaths over
the last two decades, American Indian and Alaska Native people, Black people,
and white people have higher than average combined rates for alcohol, drug, and
suicide deaths.

In 2022, states with the highest rates of deaths due to alcohol, drugs, and
suicide were New Mexico (124.3 deaths per 100,000 people), West Virginia (115.7
deaths per 100,000 people), and Alaska (104.1 deaths per 100,000 people).

 


SUBSTANCE USE AND DRUG OVERDOSE

The overall age-adjusted drug overdose mortality rate was virtually unchanged
from 2021 to 2022 (32.4 deaths per 100,000 people and 32.6 deaths per 100,000
respectively), but despite the flat trend, 107,941 people died in the U.S. due
to a drug overdose in 2022.

According to data collected by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration, in 2022 approximately 70 million people in the U.S.
aged 12 and older – about one-quarter of the adolescent and adult population –
reported using one or more illegal drugs and just under 10 percent of people
aged 12 and over in the U.S. had a drug use disorder.

Drug overdose rates were highest among American Indian/Alaska Native people at
65.2 deaths per 100,000 people, adults ages 35 to 54 (59.4 deaths per 100,000),
Black people (47.5 deaths per 100,000), and males (45.6 deaths per 100,000).

Alcohol Misuse

Despite the decrease in alcohol-induced deaths in 2022, 51,191 people in the
U.S. died from alcohol-induced causes during the year. Alcohol-induced deaths
were highest among American Indian and Alaska Native people (78.4 deaths per
100,000 people) and adults ages 55 to 74 (34.9 deaths per 100,000 people).

Suicide Deaths

In 2022, 49,476 people in the U.S. died from suicide. Overall mortality due to
suicide was virtually unchanged between 2021 and 2022: 14.1 deaths per 100,000
people and 14.2 deaths per 100,000, respectively.

The highest rate of suicide was among American Indian/Alaska Native people (27.1
deaths per 100,000 people), males (23 deaths per 100,000), older adults (21
deaths per 100,000), and people living in rural areas (20.5 deaths per 100,000).
Suicide mortality between age groups moved in different directions with suicide
deaths among young people (ages 0-17 and 18 – 34) decreasing while increasing
for all older age groups.


REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS

The report includes recommendations for steps that federal, state, local
government and other stakeholders should take to address the substance misuse
and suicide crisis, including:

Invest in prevention and community conditions that promote health, including
programs to reduce adverse childhood experiences and those that support families
and offer trauma-informed and culturally appropriate services for youth.

Reduce overdose risk and access to lethal means of suicide through harm
reduction programs including syringe services programs, access to overdose
prevention medications like naloxone, and promoting safe storage of all
firearms.

Strengthen the mental health and substance use prevention system by continuing
to build a continuum of crisis intervention programs, ensuring access to mental
health and substance use services, and growing the mental health workforce while
increasing its diversity and offering more culturally and linguistically
responsive services.

 


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