Heroin Addiction Info and Statistics in Riverside County
From 2017 to 2019, California had a 0.6% annual average prevalence of past-year opioid use disorder, affecting around 182,000 people, which matched the regional average and was slightly below the national average of 0.7%, according to the CA Behavioral Health Barometer.
In 2022, the CA Overdose Surveillance Dashboard reported 6,473 fentanyl overdose deaths and 7,385 opioid overdose deaths. Additionally, the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) noted that among every ten people in substance use treatment, six received treatment for drug use only, three for both alcohol and other drugs, and one for alcohol alone. In 2023, 28.9% of full-time employees in Los Angeles County used illicit drugs, with 33,668 patients receiving substance use disorder treatment, as reported by the LA Alcohol and Other Drug Surveillance Dashboard.