Medical and Emergency Services

Our mission is to use information from respected medical and emergency service professionals to raise awareness about drug and alcohol abuse in Auburn. We plan to accomplish this goal by making a website that presents the information we gathered from our independent research and our interviews with said professionals.

Statistics :

• In 2009, nearly 22 million Americans were regularly abusing illicit drugs: a rise of 1.5 million abusers of marijuana from 2008 and a rise of 2.3 million users from 2007, a rise of 205,000 abusers of Ecstasy from 2008, a rise of 188,000 abusers of methamphetamine from 2008 and a rise of 800,000 abusers of prescription drugs from 2008.
• One out of every eight people who suffered from a drug use disorder in 2014, according to NSUDH, struggled with both alcohol and drug use disorders simultaneously.
• The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) publishes that in 2014, almost 8 million American adults battled both a mental health disorder and a substance use disorder, or co-occurring disorders.
• The highest at-risk population for heroin addiction, as reported by S. News, is non-Hispanic white males between the ages of 18 and 25 who live in large cities.
• Heroin abuse and addiction have risen in all population and demographic groups in the United States over the past few years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states.

Created by: Matt Blair, Nick Carnicelli, Justin King, Emmet Mack, Justin Murphy, Shahil Patel, and Jacob Reilly.