The Addiction Conundrum

About 9.7% of U.S. adults with an addiction disorder in 2022 were hospitalized in the prior year—compared to the 8.4% hospitalization rate among adults in the general population, according to recent research published in;Prevalence Of Hospitalizations Among A National Sample Of U.S. Adults With Substance Use Disorders. It doesn’t sound like a lot. But there were 34 million hospital admissions in the U.S. in 2023 (see Fast Facts On U.S. Hospitals, 2025 and Fast Facts On U.S. Hospitals, 2023).;And that 1.3% difference is about 442,000 . . .