Symptoms and Screening Tools: Addiction
Signs That Someone May Have a Substance Use / Addiction Issue:
- Mood changes
- Changes in weight or overall appearance
- Disappearing for hours at a time
- Feeling that you must use a substance regularly
- Intense urges or cravings to use a substance
- Requiring more of a drug or alcohol over time to achieve the same effect
- Ensuring that the drug or alcohol is readily available
- Engaging in risky behaviors
- Abuse of alcohol or illicit substances that leads to impairment in everyday functioning (such as going to work/school or engaging in healthy relationships)
- Continuing to use a substance even though it causes psychological and/or physical harm
- Withdrawing from activities that were formerly pleasurable to pursue a substance
- Failed attempts to stop using a substance
- Experiencing withdrawal symptoms when attempts are made to cease use of a substance
Statistics on Substance Use Disorders:
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Based on data from the 2019 Pride Survey of 6,011 adolescents, the age of first use is 13 years old in Fauquier and Rappahannock Counties
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70% of youth who begin use at age 13 are at risk of developing a Substance Use Disorder
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Our 2019 PRIDE Survey indicated that 386 youth use an illicit drug 3x per week or more
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41% of people diagnosed with a substance use disorder also have a co-occurring mental health disorder