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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health

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HHS Non-systematic Review

Source: Office of the Surgeon General

Last Reviewed: 2016

Workgroups: Substance Use Workgroup

This report calls for Americans to fight the epidemic of addiction to drugs and alcohol. It offers tools and a vision for the future to help prevent and manage addiction. The accompanying website includes: 

  • A spotlight on opioids that offers information to the public and family members of people at higher risk of opioid overdose, opioid misuse, or opioid use disorder
  • Federal resources to help fight the opioid crisis
  • Additional resources that outline the report’s key messages and highlight findings and recommendations for key audiences

The website also includes links to additional information that can help people find behavioral health treatment and prevent suicide. 

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Objectives related to this resource (14)

Increase the proportion of people with a substance use disorder who got treatment in the past year — SU‑01
Little or no detectable change
Reduce drug overdose deaths — SU‑03
LHI label
Getting worse
Reduce the proportion of adolescents who drank alcohol in the past month — SU‑04
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of adolescents who used drugs in the past month — SU‑05
Getting worse
Reduce the proportion of adolescents who used marijuana in the past month — SU‑06
Getting worse
Reduce the proportion of adults who used drugs in the past month — SU‑07
Getting worse
Reduce the proportion of adults who use marijuana daily or almost daily — SU‑08
Getting worse
Reduce the proportion of people who misused prescription drugs in the past year — SU‑12
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of people who had alcohol use disorder in the past year — SU‑13
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of people who had marijuana use disorder in the past year — SU‑14
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of people who had drug use disorder in the past year — SU‑15
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of people who used heroin in the past year — SU‑16
Target met or exceeded
Reduce the proportion of people who started using heroin in the past year — SU‑17
Target met or exceeded
Reduce the proportion of people who had opioid use disorder in the past year — SU‑18
Improving

Suggested Citation

1.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2016). Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health. Retrieved from https://addiction.surgeongeneral.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-generals-report.pdf