Heroin abuse is associated with serious health conditions, including fatal overdose, spontaneous abortion, collapsed veins, and infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS and hepatitis.
Across geographic regions in 2009, underage current alcohol use rates were higher in the Northeast (31.9 percent) than in the Midwest (27.6 percent), West (25.7 percent), and South (25.6 percent).
In 2008, there were an estimated 10.2 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States with SPD in the past month. This represents 4.5 percent of all U.S. adults.
Alcohol consumption levels also were associated with tobacco use. Among heavy alcohol users aged 12 or older, 58.0 percent smoked cigarettes in the past month, while only 19.2 percent of non-binge current drinkers and 16.1 percent of persons who did not drink alcohol in the past month were current smokers. Smokeless tobacco use and cigar use also were more prevalent among heavy drinkers (12.5 and 17.8 percent, respectively) than among non-binge drinkers (2.2 and 4.6 percent) and nondrinkers (2.1 and 2.0 percent).
