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SAMHSA’s National Helpline is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service (in English and Spanish) for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders.
Also visit the online treatment locator.

SAMHSA’s National Helpline, 1-800-662-HELP (4357) (also known as the Treatment Referral Routing Service), or TTY: 1-800-487-4889 is a confidential, free, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, information service, in English and Spanish, for individuals and family members facing mental and/or substance use disorders. This service provides referrals to local treatment facilities, support groups, and community-based organizations.

Also visit the online treatment locator, or send your zip code via text message: 435748 (HELP4U) to find help near you. Read more about the HELP4U text messaging service.

The service is open 24/7, 365 days a year.

English and Spanish are available if you select the option to speak with a national representative. Currently, the 435748 (HELP4U) text messaging service is only available in English.

In 2020, the Helpline received 833,598 calls. This is a 27 percent increase from 2019, when the Helpline received a total of 656,953 calls for the year.

The referral service is free of charge. If you have no insurance or are underinsured, we will refer you to your state office, which is responsible for state-funded treatment programs. In addition, we can often refer you to facilities that charge on a sliding fee scale or accept Medicare or Medicaid. If you have health insurance, you are encouraged to contact your insurer for a list of participating health care providers and facilities.

The service is confidential. We will not ask you for any personal information. We may ask for your zip code or other pertinent geographic information in order to track calls being routed to other offices or to accurately identify the local resources appropriate to your needs.

No, we do not provide counseling. Trained information specialists answer calls, transfer callers to state services or other appropriate intake centers in their states, and connect them with local assistance and support.

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What Is Substance Abuse Treatment? A Booklet for Families
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It's Not Your Fault (NACoA) (PDF | 12 KB)
Assures teens with parents who abuse alcohol or drugs that, "It's not your fault!" and that they are not alone. Encourages teens to seek emotional support from other adults, school counselors, and youth support groups such as Alateen, and provides a resource list.

After an Attempt: A Guide for Taking Care of Your Family Member After Treatment in the Emergency Department
Aids family members in coping with the aftermath of a relative's suicide attempt. Describes the emergency department treatment process, lists questions to ask about follow-up treatment, and describes how to reduce risk and ensure safety at home.
Family Therapy Can Help: For People in Recovery From Mental Illness or Addiction
Explores the role of family therapy in recovery from mental illness or substance abuse. Explains how family therapy sessions are run and who conducts them, describes a typical session, and provides information on its effectiveness in recovery.
For additional resources, please visit the SAMHSA Store.

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Last Updated: 08/30/2022

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

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Misusing alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs can have both immediate and long-term health effects.

The misuse and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, and prescription medications affect the health and well-being of millions of Americans. NSDUH estimates allow researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and the general public to better understand and improve the nation’s behavioral health. These reports and detailed tables present estimates from the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).

Alcohol

Data:

Among the 133.1 million current alcohol users aged 12 or older in 2021, 60.0 million people (or 45.1%) were past month binge drinkers. The percentage of people who were past month binge drinkers was highest among young adults aged 18 to 25 (29.2% or 9.8 million people), followed by adults aged 26 or older (22.4% or 49.3 million people), then by adolescents aged 12 to 17 (3.8% or 995,000 people). (2021 NSDUH)
Among people aged 12 to 20 in 2021, 15.1% (or 5.9 million people) were past month alcohol users. Estimates of binge alcohol use and heavy alcohol use in the past month among underage people were 8.3% (or 3.2 million people) and 1.6% (or 613,000 people), respectively. (2021 NSDUH)

In 2020, 50.0% of people aged 12 or older (or 138.5 million people) used alcohol in the past month (i.e., current alcohol users) (2020 NSDUH)
Among the 138.5 million people who were current alcohol users, 61.6 million people (or 44. 4%) were classified as binge drinkers and 17.7 million people (28.8% of current binge drinkers and 12.8% of current alcohol users) were classified as heavy drinkers (2020 NSDUH)
The percentage of people who were past month binge alcohol users was highest among young adults aged 18 to 25 (31.4%) compared with 22.9% of adults aged 26 or older and 4.1% of adolescents aged 12 to 17 (2020 NSDUH)
Excessive alcohol use can increase a person’s risk of stroke, liver cirrhosis, alcoholic hepatitis, cancer, and other serious health conditions
Excessive alcohol use can also lead to risk-taking behavior, including driving while impaired. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 29 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver daily

Programs/Initiatives:

STOP Underage Drinking interagency portal - Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking
Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking
Talk. They Hear You.
Underage Drinking: Myths vs. Facts
Talking with your College-Bound Young Adult About Alcohol

Relevant links:

National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors
Department of Transportation Office of Drug & Alcohol Policy & Compliance
Alcohol Policy Information Systems Database (APIS)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Tobacco

Data:

In 2020, 20.7% of people aged 12 or older (or 57.3 million people) used nicotine products (i.e., used tobacco products or vaped nicotine) in the past month (2020 NSDUH)
Among past month users of nicotine products, nearly two thirds of adolescents aged 12 to 17 (63.1%) vaped nicotine but did not use tobacco products. In contrast, 88.9% of past month nicotine product users aged 26 or older used only tobacco products (2020 NSDUH)
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death, often leading to lung cancer, respiratory disorders, heart disease, stroke, and other serious illnesses. The CDC reports that cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States
The CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health reports that more than 16 million Americans are living with a disease caused by smoking cigarettes

Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use data:

In 2021, 13.2 million people aged 12 or older (or 4.7%) used an e-cigarette or other vaping device to vape nicotine in the past month. The percentage of people who vaped nicotine was highest among young adults aged 18 to 25 (14.1% or 4.7 million people), followed by adolescents aged 12 to 17 (5.2% or 1.4 million people), then by adults aged 26 or older (3.2% or 7.1 million people).
Among people aged 12 to 20 in 2021, 11.0% (or 4.3 million people) used tobacco products or used an e-cigarette or other vaping device to vape nicotine in the past month. Among people in this age group, 8.1% (or 3.1 million people) vaped nicotine, 5.4% (or 2.1 million people) used tobacco products, and 3. 4% (or 1.3 million people) smoked cigarettes in the past month. (2021 NSDUH)
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2020 National Youth Tobacco Survey. Among both middle and high school students, current use of e-cigarettes declined from 2019 to 2020, reversing previous trends and returning current e-cigarette use to levels similar to those observed in 2018
E-cigarettes are not safe for youth, young adults, or pregnant women, especially because they contain nicotine and other chemicals

Resources:

Tips for Teens: Tobacco
Tips for Teens: E-cigarettes
Implementing Tobacco Cessation Programs in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Settings
Synar Amendment Program

Links:

Truth Initiative
FDA Center for Tobacco Products
CDC Office on Smoking and Health
National Institute on Drug Abuse: Tobacco, Nicotine, and E-Cigarettes
National Institute on Drug Abuse: E-Cigarettes

Opioids

Data:

Among people aged 12 or older in 2021, 3. 3% (or 9.2 million people) misused opioids (heroin or prescription pain relievers) in the past year. Among the 9.2 million people who misused opioids in the past year, 8.7 million people misused prescription pain relievers compared with 1.1 million people who used heroin. These numbers include 574,000 people who both misused prescription pain relievers and used heroin in the past year. (2021 NSDUH)
Among people aged 12 or older in 2020, 3.4% (or 9.5 million people) misused opioids in the past year. Among the 9.5 million people who misused opioids in the past year, 9.3 million people misused prescription pain relievers and 902,000 people used heroin (2020 NSDUH)
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Understanding the Epidemic, an average of 128 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose

Resources:

Medications for Substance Use Disorders
Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit
TIP 63: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder

Use of Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Criminal Justice Settings
Opioid Use Disorder and Pregnancy
Clinical Guidance for Treating Pregnant and Parenting Women With Opioid Use Disorder and Their Infants
The Facts about Buprenorphine for Treatment of Opioid Addiction
Pregnancy Planning for Women Being Treated for Opioid Use Disorder
Tips for Teens: Opioids
Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Grants
Tribal Opioid Response Grants
Provider’s Clinical Support System - Medication Assisted Treatment Grant Program

Links:

National Institute on Drug Abuse: Opioids
National Institute on Drug Abuse: Heroin
HHS Prevent Opioid Abuse
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network
Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network

Marijuana

Data:

In 2021, marijuana was the most commonly used illicit drug, with 18. 7% of people aged 12 or older (or 52.5 million people) using it in the past year. The percentage was highest among young adults aged 18 to 25 (35.4% or 11.8 million people), followed by adults aged 26 or older (17.2% or 37.9 million people), then by adolescents aged 12 to 17 (10.5% or 2.7 million people).
The percentage of people who used marijuana in the past year was highest among young adults aged 18 to 25 (34.5%) compared with 16.3% of adults aged 26 or older and 10.1% of adolescents aged 12 to 17 (2020 NSDUH)
Marijuana can impair judgment and distort perception in the short term and can lead to memory impairment in the long term
Marijuana can have significant health effects on youth and pregnant women.

Resources:

Know the Risks of Marijuana
Marijuana and Pregnancy
Tips for Teens: Marijuana

Relevant links:

National Institute on Drug Abuse: Marijuana
Addiction Technology Transfer Centers on Marijuana
CDC Marijuana and Public Health

Emerging Trends in Substance Misuse:

Methamphetamine—In 2019, NSDUH data show that approximately 2 million people used methamphetamine in the past year. Approximately 1 million people had a methamphetamine use disorder, which was higher than the percentage in 2016, but similar to the percentages in 2015 and 2018. The National Institute on Drug Abuse Data shows that overdose death rates involving methamphetamine have quadrupled from 2011 to 2017. Frequent meth use is associated with mood disturbances, hallucinations, and paranoia.
Cocaine—In 2019, NSDUH data show an estimated 5.5 million people aged 12 or older were past users of cocaine, including about 778,000 users of crack. The CDC reports that overdose deaths involving have increased by one-third from 2016 to 2017. In the short term, cocaine use can result in increased blood pressure, restlessness, and irritability. In the long term, severe medical complications of cocaine use include heart attacks, seizures, and abdominal pain.
Kratom—In 2019, NSDUH data show that about 825,000 people had used Kratom in the past month. Kratom is a tropical plant that grows naturally in Southeast Asia with leaves that can have psychotropic effects by affecting opioid brain receptors. It is currently unregulated and has risk of abuse and dependence. The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that health effects of Kratom can include nausea, itching, seizures, and hallucinations.

Resources:

Tips for Teens: Methamphetamine
Tips for Teens: Cocaine
National Institute on Drug Abuse

More SAMHSA publications on substance use prevention and treatment.

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Last Updated: 03/22/2023

Can anxiety depression be cured? Treatment of anxiety in the Central Medical Health Center "Alliance"

There is such a traditional Russian remedy - "it will pass by itself." We endure to the last and do not want to go to the doctor. We are waiting for it to “pass by itself”. And if persistent toothache, pain in the stomach or heart sometimes still force us to turn to a specialist, then with mental pain everything is different. We tolerate.

No matter what happens, no matter how hard it is, we endure. Even if life is not sweet, anxiety drives you crazy, everything falls out of your hands and completely bad thoughts come into your head. And why? Well, first of all, going to a psychotherapist is a shame. What will the people around you think? Won't friends and relatives think that "I don't have everything at home"? And what will they say at work? They’ll still fire me... And then they’ll register some one and that’s all — you won’t get a job anywhere... And in general, how can a stranger understand my feelings? So we endure.

Mental health is just as important as physical health. And if depression or neurosis is not treated, then they can also give complications. These are the ones that are no longer treated by a psychotherapist, but by a psychiatrist.

What's the difference?

A psychotherapist treats people who find themselves in a difficult situation and have developed a mental disorder. The psychotherapist's patient is not on any account, has no restrictions on work and communication. In Europe and the United States, many people have their own personal or family psychotherapist, as well as a personal or family doctor - a specialist in physical illness. And they visit him not at the moment when depression has reached a clinical state, but on almost every occasion. At the preclinical, so to speak, stage. Such is the prevention for the health of the soul.

In our country, relatives are almost forcibly brought to a psychotherapist, or patients come to him after a differential diagnosis by a psychiatrist. They determined that it was not psychiatry yet, and handed it over to a psychotherapist. An excellent position, isn't it - to delay until the intervention of a psychiatrist is required! It's like not going to a cardiologist, so that later you can be transferred to him by a cardiologist...

Anxiety or depressive disorders currently affect about 10% of people. That is, every tenth of your acquaintance needs the help of a psychotherapist. Or... you?

You don’t have to endure, search the Internet for “is it possible to cure anxiety depression”, drink all kinds of sedatives in a row. The Internet does not see and does not understand you personally, and a variety of knowledge has been put into its “head”. And sedatives relieve symptoms (if they relieve at all), but do not treat the cause.

Who will help?

If you are anxious for no apparent reason, see the world in gloomy colors, sleep and eat poorly, nothing pleases you - perhaps this is not just stress and fatigue, but an anxiety-depressive neurosis. You can stay in this state for years, going deeper and deeper into the spleen, and getting out of it on your own is almost impossible. In this situation, a psychotherapist will help.

It is the psychotherapist who will explain to you what happens to you with anxious depression, how to get out of this state and start a new life. The treatment of disorders such as anxiety-depressive neurosis includes, first of all, psychotherapy sessions, during which you and your doctor together will find the cause that caused the disease and work it out.

Sessions of body-oriented therapy, art therapy and other rehabilitation procedures will teach the body and soul to enjoy the sensations, and competent drug support (not prescribed for everyone, only if necessary) will fix each step towards the result. And, since the trauma or negative attitude that caused the disease no longer torments and worries you - even years after the treatment, the disease will not return to you. And therefore, do not hesitate to consult a doctor - live life to the fullest without depression and anxiety.

At the Alyans Mental Health Center you will be provided with qualified assistance for anxiety and depressive disorder. Do not try to defeat the disease alone - turn to professionals who will bring peace and positivity back into your life.

Asthenic depression, how to treat the disease

Asthenic depression is an emotional disorder in which the main symptom of the disease is anxiety. The degree of manifestation of this disease in each person is different, but without exception, all people who have undergone this type of depression agree that the disorder manifests itself both at the mental and physical levels.

At the same time, the main symptom of asthenic depression is often supplemented by related manifestations, which greatly complicates a person's everyday life. Therefore, it is extremely important not to delay the consultation with a qualified specialist in order to avoid the harmful consequences of an unpleasant condition.

Such an emotional disorder as asthenia in modern society is quite common, in many ways negatively affecting life. The main sign of the presence of an ailment is constant anxiety, which completely takes over the mind of a person and does not give him rest at any time of the day.

The most common cause of this disorder is considered to be the enormous impact of stress on the human psyche. Most often, conflict situations in personal life or in the professional field, as well as all kinds of negative changes in the measured rhythm of life, lead to this type of depression.

At the same time, anxiety can manifest itself in various ways, and the one who has been depressed feels:

- inner tension;
- indefinite anxiety;
- uncertainty about the correctness of decision making.

Tearfulness often begins to appear for no apparent reason, there are problems with sleep. It is important to start treatment of asthenic depression as soon as possible in order to prevent the disorder from flowing into a severe form, in which internal trembling and palpitations appear even during rest.

Effective relief from asthenic depression

Such a complex disorder as asthenic depression should be treated only under the supervision of an experienced doctor who is able to correctly diagnose the patient's condition and prescribe an individual course of rehabilitation.

It is in the Korsakov Center in Moscow that practicing masters of their craft work, who are perfectly aware of how to quickly bring a patient out of a dangerous state. Under their guidance, it is possible to eliminate the physical ailments that occur with depression, restore a healthy psychological background through complex treatment.

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