Interesting national statistics past the surface ranges and claims:

Most reporting tend to cluster minors and young adults to 25 or cluster anyone 18 or older. This spreads out, lowers, and masks the true percentages.

The 18-25 age bracket is overwhelmingly the top group for all the above:

Mental health issues, self reported depression Severe mhi Substance abuse Severe su Usage of non Rx drugs, particularly pain reliever types but also mj very high. Coke and heroin follow pretty close behind, meth is much lower overall. Usage of alcohol, vaping, Rx drugs, party drugs. And a LOT of Rx drugs are gifted by friends vs street bought or abused their own Rx.

Teens have heavy suicide ideation, and a fair ratio that attempt, and a moderate ratio that plan and attempt. They also high the highest rates of treatment for both mhi and sai, around 80% overall.

NA teens have by far the highest usage and mh issues. Multi ethnic is really bad too.

26 and over have very low ratios in comparison on virtually everything, only reaching close to parity with 18-25 on the percentage with mh issues not receiving any or desired treatment, around 40%.

The percentages of new substance abuse in last year in 2022 was very low for most high risk drugs for 18-25, indicating su was well established already.

Very little older adults started anything- new to vaping over 25 the exception- and teens mostly had the usual 3 new usage of mj alcohol, and cigs.

As to ethnicity: Multi ethnic is in top 2 for most categories. Meth is heavily black, but high for white and NA too. Other party drugs more white, but black and NA bad. Rx pain meds evenly across black, white, but not high, super low in Latino and Asian. Non Rx pain meds are also black and white high, much lower in Latino and Asian. Alcohol heavily NA, but bad in all but Asian.

Now consider what all this more dpecific data tells you...