And lee hamilton speak an event hosted by the bipartisan tom king and lee hamilton speak an event hosted by the bipartisan next, look at a report on Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health issues. Health and Human Services secretary tom price took part in the event hosted by the Substance Abuse and Health Services administration. This is one hour and 40 minutes. Good morning welcome. Im director of the Sampson Center for mental Health Services and umc for today. Each year sampson releases most recent findings from the National Service on drug use and health. Its commonly referred to as listed. Were releasing results from the 2016 survey and privilege to have our assistant secretary for Mental Health and Substance Abuse here today to present the key Substance Use and Mental Health indicators. Today marks the 28th annual recovery month observant thats special to me. I among men in the room and thousands across this nation is your proof and evidence that treatment works and people do recovery. [applause] recovery month provides an opportunity for us to celebrate those americans in recovery from Substance Use disorders that celebrates the hard work, the daytoday work of advocates, and grassroots organizations and the family members and friends have joined their loved ones on their journeys of recovery. To begin the program im honored to reduce our secretary. Doctor obtained this with Infectious Disease and epidemiology and is a graduate of the university of Connecticut School of medicine. She has extensive experience in the care and treatment of those living with Substance Use and mental disorders. Shes boardcertified and addiction psychiatry with over 20 years of experience. Her experience in federal and state agencies as a commission, researcher and educator equipped with multifaceted expertise needed to address todays Behavioral Health challenge. Please join me in welcoming the assistant secretary. [applause] good morning, and thank you. Its really great to be here. Welcome everyone. Here at the National Press club on those out watching our webcast im pleased to join you. Its my honor to prevent highlights from this years survey. It is my distinct privilege to share the podium with secretary price our guest speakers. Countless americans are living in recovery by their loved ones and by those were just embarking on the journey to regain their health and reclaim their lives. Our country faces serious challenges and Mental Health and abuse. As with every challenge we must rise and meet headon with clarity and purpose. Coronation of effort, efficiency and strong leadership. Were fortunate to have secretary price who brings a strong commitment to addressing serious Mental Illness in making these issues to of the priority areas. Doctor price was sworn in as the 23rd secretary of health and Human Services. He brings a lifetime of service and dedication to advancing the quality of healthcare in america just both as a physician and policymaker. Trained as an Orthopedic Surgeon and practice for 20 years doctor price help leadership roles and having served as medical director of the orthopedic clinic as well as on the faculty at Emory University school of medicine. As with many physicians and Healthcare Providers doctor prices experience caring for patients gave him a unique perspective about the impact of public policy. With the goal to brought the impact he could have doctor price ran for Public Office and was elected to four terms and following which he was elected to the u. S. House of representatives serving georges six Congressional District for 12 years. Doctor prices but an advocate for Healthcare Systems that are heres the principles of affordability accessibility, choices and response. A secretary for health and Human Services doctor price remains committed to administering a ride rate of services and protecting and serving allamericans. Please join me in welcoming secretary price. [applause] thank you for that kind introduction. Good morning what a great joint is to be here for so many dedicated folks to an issue that deserves so much attention for a nation. I thank you for the introduction and to commend her for her incredible work as she brings remarkable wealth. We are tremendously excited to have your tenure. God bless you. The National Survey on drug use and health is a major task. I dont have to tell most of you that. Getting reliable and comparable information is important to our success. This effort is crucial to understanding the challenges we faced annoying how we need to focus our efforts. Thanks go to all the hardworking folks at samsung for their dedication in producing the survey. Thank you to who is here today for her work as acting head of sampson during the time ms. Put together. None one of the director of the mental Health Services, to darrell, the director of which oversees this. We appreciate rich director here for jordan austin participating in this press conference. I want to give a heartfelt thanks to emmanuel and esther, zach for participating in sharing their story and celebrating recovery month in sharing their personal experiences. The purpose of our work is to shed more sunlight on Public Health and Public Health issues and challenges that require sober reflection and honest evaluation of plan. When we received the briefing earlier this year from the experts im told it was the first time in years that the secretary had received this briefing and pursing. Its not because they dont receive data briefings all the time, its because fred a difficult point in terms of this battle against addiction and drug abuse. And we had hhs in the Trump Administration have chosen to make it a priority. This reflects the urgency weve had until our clinical areas. The opiate crisis and severe Mental Illness. The good news points that i would like to share, the opiate crisis the survey did not show that addiction was taking up the problem is the number of opiate and Overdose Deaths continue to skyrocket. As all who toil in this area you know well the opiate crisis is a deeply complicated story. The fact that were not seen this spread for there is a testament to the incredible work being done in communities across our nation. We have seen results of that positive work as we have gone around to visit folks and discuss best practices. We also heard of tragedy the rates of addiction to heroin the misuse are incredibly high. The cost in terms of lives lost is still rapidly growing. Today survey estimates 948,000 American Adults used here when in the past year. Your. 4 of the population. Similar to the numbers weve had over the past few years and significantly higher than the numbers in 2002 and 2013. We see trends in the use of opiates relatively stable now but much worse than it was a few years ago. The situation is worsening thanks to the intensity and frequency of misuse of illicitly used fentanyl. As you know the crisis is taking a bigger toll on lives across our land. Each year a new unprecedented level of lives lost. We saw more than 52000 drug Overdose Deaths and the numbers are not better in 16 or the issue. Means were losing more individuals there were lost in the entire vietnam war. Were losing every single year to drug overdose. Thats unacceptable. Data from the cdc suggest increasing numbers likely to exceed 60000 with the numbers this year note better. At hhs weve unveiled a fivepoint strategy to tackle this for the american people. Improving prevention, treatment, and recovery including the full range of medication assisted treatment. Second is making sure overdose drugs are is available as possible. Thirty strengthening the understanding of the information and support for state data work like new grants at the cdc put out this week. For this provided support for cuttingedge research on pain, diction and understanding it and how to take care of it better. Fifth is advancing the way we manage pain. One of the interesting aspects is that two thirds of americans misusing opiates so they did so to treat physical pain. We have a congress that appears to ube receptive of those resources necessary to make positive changes of serious Mental Illness. The trade numbers do keep in mind are 10 10 1,010,000,000, 10 years and 10 times. Ted million americans says this survey has found have and Mental Illness said any given year on average they live lives ted years shorter than the average American Population this is one of the areas i begin is incredibly important there are 10 times more americans in prison and an inpatient psychiatric facilities. A significant indictment with the challenge that we have that has not received the emphasis are the resources that it needs of the past and we are intent on turning that around hhs and the Trump Administration are committed to tackling that to ensure those of serious Mental Illness get that it treats effective treatment that they be getting the tools that they need to make that happen and so todays report underscores the serious challenges you will hear about that with the upcoming speakers but it is within our power to turn around these trends in the right direction would enable millions of americans to live longer help the alliance with negative why is endowed with the purpose said meeting we all want for children and neighbors and fellow americans were so blast to have so many dedicated talented folks getting guests of the right direction banks for tending to dave for your interest ted concerned about these Public Health challenges. [applause] agues secretary price for your leadership begins me pleasure to reduce our next speaker who currently serves as within the u. S. Department of health and Human Services the governments lead entity for Behavioral Health statistics to provide National Leadership negative Behavioral Health statistics from the basic research to promote basic and applied research and Statistical Methodology to carry a special Data Collection to also consult and advise through hhs please help me to welcome specific to design and function. [applause] they give. [laughter] a National Survey on drug use and help is a new survey as dave non is additional population of the United States aged 12 years or older. Hundred of field interviewers hold facetoface interviews on sensitive issues and it is hardy and rewarding working with their support it has Spending Continues to be the primary source for statistical and affirmation on illicit drug use and alcohol use, a Substance Used disorders and Mental Health issues. One of the strength is the large sample that allows for the examination of adolescents also of the stability of the symbol of survey designed that allows multiple user data such as injection drug use however overtime new drugs for introduced into the market and updates were updated to a the questionnaire questions are periodically updated which leads to a break to the ability to compare data. In 2015 the number of changes were made to the questionnaire they improve the quality of the Data Collected and address mentalhealth policy and Research Needs as a result the 20,161st Findings Report provides longterm trends for many topics such as heroin use and depression and mental Health Services. However does not have a longterm trend for pain relievers are methamphetamines Substance Used disorder or treatments. We look forward to the 2018 and 19 serve for a terrible four years of data points to share the future to reestablish those trendlines of the critical areas. Now my turn the program back to the assistant secretary who will share major findings from the survey that our policy relevant. [applause] i am happy to have a of opportunity 2016 National Survey drug use on health i will tell you more about it that every year the National Survey surveys 67,000 americans with their use of substances said difficulties of Mental Illness. Thanks to those for dissidents who share their ties with their honesty to share light of these issues is my privilege to work with these leaders but i also want to read knowledge our staff who work very, very hard every year and also work in communities and with states and stakeholders to reprove Behavioral Health of the nation i want to recognize all those who work there i havent had i have had an opportunity to meet them one by one and have been very impressed. So to be completed every year since 1990 even though the study was redesigned there is a number of measures to trend that show consistency tobacco and alcohol use are trending downward am Prescription Drug misuse also appears to be modestly decreasing. I will spend my time talking about those areas the first talk about the prevalence of the data add that we get every year and what we learned in 2016 is 18point 3 people over the age of 12 had a Mental Illness. Twentythree of those people had a serious Mental Illness. These are people diagnosed with a Mental Illness that it impairs activities and in addition we have another 20 Million People who meet diagnostic criteria and when we look more closely at the data em we have 37 percent struggle with illicit drugs 75 struggle with alcohol or both. Wendy look more closely what we see far and away marijuana remains the most frequently used the illicit substance that 13. 9 of the population and after that psychotherapeutic drugs. That is a category of prescribed medication and there are four categories that are stimulants, a sensitive and hypnotic says says, of tranquilizers and opioids a unit medications. What you will see is that the opioid medications is the majority of the of misused for you can see heroin at the bottom 948,000 people that are currently your users if we take a deeper look at both ua use in United States people are continuing to misuse pain relievers. 11. 8 million hour opioid this users and 11. 5 million were prescription opioid users if we look more closely at the medications used by people who engage in this behavior cover the majority are misusing hydrocodone and doxy koto and far fewer are misusing at fennel fentanyl. We have seen those that are reporting they have misused carol wynne and prescription pain medication when we look at the adverse outcomes that we are seeing from opioid is sent driven so we have shown you here is that the data that tells us for 2016 heroin use is flat so were not seeing a big increase but similarly for prescription pain reliever smears seeing a small decline in the number people misusing prescription pain relievers those that the diagnostic criteria for the zero pla use disorder opioid disorder in what is on the right side of the slide only 21 percent are getting treatment for the opioid disorder 37point 5 of those that are using heroin got treatment versus only 17. 5 of prescription pain reliever dictions. That is important because the other thing we are seeing is a large stunning increase of deaths related to heroin use. What i am telling you is in 2002 ordered 4,000 americans over here with users that number increases the lead a look at negative macy end 2002 little over 2,000 negative but by 2016 it looks like they will tell us 13,219 people died of heroin use. 230 increase 630 increase of death people in this country using heroin are being poisoned. This is usually concerning and it is underscoring the need that we increase access to treatment to get people prevention services, and Recovery Services that they need. Now want to take a few minutes of a finding that is very concerning of the prevalence of serious Mental Illness it young adults that we called transitional age use and love we see in 2008 3. 8 had serious Mental Illness that had risen in 2016 of 5. 9 . And will over half of the show and adults could access treatment so 02 Million People little over half could acc