The purpose of the Coalitions Training Cooperative Agreement is to leverage existing
resources and conference support to enable SAMHSA to provide training and technical
assistance to state and community prevention leaders, including members of anti-drug
community coalitions from around the country who are committed to addressing the
evolving needs of the behavioral health field. The award will also help enhance and
build the prevention workforce.
The program’s aim is to provide evidence-based information on the state of substance
use and misuse in the nation to substance use prevention audiences. According to the
National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) data from 2022, 48.7 million people
aged 12 or older (or 17.3% of this population) had a substance use disorder (SUD) in
the past year, including 29.5 million who had an alcohol use disorder and 27.2 million
who had a drug use disorder. In 2022 the estimates of past year SUD among people
aged 12 or older was highest among young adults aged 18 to 25 (27.8% or 9.7 million
people) compared to the estimates for all other age groups, and among American
Indian or Alaska Native People (24%) compared to the estimates for people in all other
racial/ethnic groups.