According to Healio (1/5), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) “announced the results of its annual national survey on drug use and” mental “health for 2021” in a Jan. 4 press release. This report“includes selected estimates by race, ethnicity and age group, comprising the most comprehensive report on substance use and mental health indicators SAMHSA has released to date.”
MedPage Today (1/5, Monaco) reports, “Both adolescents and adults pinned some blame on the COVID-19 pandemic for negatively impacting their mental health,” with nearly “half of adolescents who experienced a major depressive episode and half of adults with a serious mental illness” saying that “the pandemic negatively affected their mental health ‘quite a bit or a lot.’”
Related Links:
— “SAMHSA releases 2021 survey on mental health, substance use “Shenaz Bagha, Healio, January 5, 2023