18% Of Unemployed Adults Have Addiction Disorder

During 2012, about 18.1% of unemployed adults aged 18 or older reported using illegal drugs in the past month, representing 2.5 million of the approximately 13.5 million unemployed adults seeking work. Among employed adults about 9% used illegal drugs, representing 14.5 million of the 144 million adults age 16 and older with full-time or part-time jobs. The estimates include people with co-occurring mental illness and addiction disorder. Illegal drug use rates were lowest among full-time workers (8.9%) than among part-time (12.5%) or unemployed (18.1%) workers.

The findings were . . .