Mental Health & Substance Abuse

A selection of useful Australian and international websites and publications, which provide detailed statistics related to alcohol and other drugs.

The National Drug Strategy Household Surveys (NDSHS) are national surveys providing cross sectional data on alcohol and other drug use in Australia. The surveys provide estimates of licit and illicit drug use. The surveys also measure community attitudes to drug use, and awareness of and community support for various drug-related policies.

The NOPSAD collection provides information on a snapshot day in June 2014 on clients receiving opioid pharmacotherapy treatment, the doctors prescribing opioid pharmacotherapy drugs, and the dosing points (such as pharmacies) that clients attend to receive their medication

Data on alcohol and other drugs from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Mental health data cubes contain detailed information from several mental-health related National Minimum Datasets (NMDSs) administered by the AIHW.

The AIHW is one of Australia’s premier sources of statistics and related information on drug and alcohol use, and on alcohol and drug treatment services.

This section includes statistical tables and graphs derived from a wide range of sources, including the National Drug Strategy Household Survey.

This release focuses on psychological disability data collected in the 2012 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers (SDAC). It presents an overview of psychological disability in Australia, including information on prevalence, coexisting conditions and impairments, assistance needed and received, and participation in education and employment.

Data from the World Health Organization covering mental health governance; human resources; mental health service availability; and suicide rates.

MindHealthConnect is the easy way to find mental health and well-being information, support and services from Australia’s leading health providers, together in one place. Supported by the Australian Government, MindHealthConnect helps you to find information you can trust.

Topics covered include: health care providers, cost of and access to health care, substance abuse, chronic conditions, and other health related topics.

The Monitoring the Future: A Continuing Study of the Lifestyles and Values of Youth annual surveys were designed to explore changes in important values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations of contemporary American youth. The surveys began in 1975. Each year, large, distinct, nationally representative samples of 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade students in the United States are asked to respond to drug use and demographic questions, as well as to additional questions on a variety of subjects, including attitudes toward religion, parental influences, changing roles of women, educational aspirations, self-esteem, exposure to sex and drug education, and violence and crime - both in and out of school.

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provides national and state-level data on the use of tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs (including non-medical use of prescription drugs) and mental health in the United States.

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the nation's premier system of health-related telephone surveys that collect state data about U.S. residents regarding their health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services.

Recent ABS data and reports on mental health in Australia