Indiana Ranks 7th In State With Biggest Drug Problem In 2018

Last updated on Monday, May 14, 2018

(UNDATED) - With Substance Abuse and Mental health Service Administration’s National Prevention Week in full swing and the Trump administration proposing harsher penalties for drug offenders, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on the States with the Biggest Drug Problems in 2018 to highlight the areas that stand to be most affected.

This study compares the 50 states and the District in terms of 20 key metrics, ranging from arrest and overdose rates to opioid prescriptions and meth-lab incidents per capita.

Indiana ranks 7th for one of the worse states in the country.

The state ranked:

22nd - Share of Teenagers Who Used Illicit Drugs in the Past Month
24th - Share of Adults Who Used Illicit Drugs in the Past Month
11th - Opioid Pain Reliever Prescriptions per Capita
16th - Drug Overdose Deaths per Capita
27th - Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities per 100,000 People (12 Years and Older) Using Illicit Drugs

Ranking number one for the worse state was the District of Columbia, followed by Missouri, New Hampshire, Michigan, West Virginia and New Mexico.

The best state was Minnesota.

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