The global burden of drug use and mental disorders

摘要

Reports by Harvey Whiteford1 and Louisa Degenhardt2 and their respective colleagues in The Lancet represent the culmination of an impressive collaborative programme of research that has estimated the global burden of disease (GBD) associated with numerous risk factors3 and diseases. The importance of this project in guiding policy cannot be overestimated. The major findings to emerge from the present reports are that mental and substance use disorders (including alcohol and other drug use disorders) accounted for an estimated 7.4% (95% uncertainty interval 6.2-8.6) of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and 22.9% (18.6-27.2) of years lived with disability (YLDs) worldwide in 2010.