New Jersey Drug Statistics and Facts

• In 2010, New Jersey had 70,121 admissions for drug and alcohol abuse in state, private, local and non-profit substance abuse treatment centers. 67.8 percent of all those receiving treatment were male, and 32.2 percent were female.
• In 1992, there were 16,363 New Jersey people admitted for drug abuse alone, and by 2006, the rate had doubled.
• There were 351alcohol and drug treatment centers in New Jersey as of 2006. New Jersey is below the national average for available treatment beds.
• Since 2003, admissions, in New Jersey, for those looking for a drug or alcohol abuse treatment with a co-occurring mental health diseases have gone from 8 percent to 21 percent in 2006.
• Cocaine continues to be widely available throughout New Jersey and is the main drug of choice in several parts of the state.
• 2,873 New Jersey residents were admitted, in 2010, for smoking Cocaine with an additional 1,918 people admitted for Cocaine addiction that used Cocaine by means other than smoking it.
• Heroin abuse exceeded the list of most abused drugs in New Jersey with 22,106 people admitted for addiction treatment in 2010.
• Marijuana is the 3rd most widely available and frequently abuse illegal drug in the New Jersey region with 11, 041 people seeking treatment in 2010.
• The Drug Abuse Warning Network said that there were over 155 emergency room visits associated with Meth in the state of New Jersey.
• In New Jersey, there were 7,234 people admitted for Opiate addiction, not including Heroin, in 2010.
• Current investigations indicate that diversion of Oxycontin, hydrocodone products (like Vicodin), fentanyl, and phentermine continues to be a problem in New Jersey.
• There were 797 deaths attributed to drug use in 2007 compared to 719 deaths from car accidents and 446 deaths from firearms. New Jersey was a bit below the national average for drug related deaths.
• New Jersey was among the top eighteen states where drug related deaths exceeded car accidents deaths.
• According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Meth addiction is primarily on the rise in New Hampshires seacoast area.
• In New Jersey, about 73,000 (9.9%) adolescents used an illegal drug in the past month; 50,000 (7.3%) used Marijuana, and 33,000 (4.5%) used an illegal drug other than Marijuana.
• The rates of current alcohol use, In New Jersey, were significantly higher for adolescent females (24.3%) than for males (17.2%). Rates of last-month cigarette use were significantly higher for females than males (15.3% versus 9.8%).
• More than 44 percent of New Hampshire high school students have tried Marijuana at least once, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy statistics.
• Approximately 11 percent of New Jersey students have abused inhalants at least once.
• In 2007, 168 New Hampshire residents died from drugs while 129 were killed in car crashes.
• Almost one in ten male high school students has tried Cocaine, in New Jersey.