50% of children ages birth to 18 years have endured one or more traumatic experiences

Trauma and Coping Statistics - The Pain of Children

Stress and trauma are the leading causes of unhealthy (maladaptive) coping. Unhealthy coping is the second leading cause of death for children ages 10 to 24 (suicide). The following statistics reveal the suffering as to the prevalence of trauma and types of unhealthy coping that children are using. Children are desperate. We must equip them with healthy coping skills to successfully manage the stress and trauma they have endured and are enduring. As you read these statistics, consider the individual lives that are impacted. 6,500 youth use alcohol for the first time - every day. 6,500 kids with siblings, parents, friends, neighbors, teachers. 6,500 kids using alcohol to self-medicate - and once they start, they are likely to continue. 90% of adults addicted to alcohol began drinking before they were age 18. PLEASE NOTE: While our product reach is global, the statistics noted here are limited to the United States.

  • Trauma - Adverse Childhood Experiences

    Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s) are ‘adverse’ - distressing, harmful, toxic, abusive - ‘experiences - events, relationships - that are ‘traumatic’ . These adverse experiences encompass both physical and emotional trauma, acute and chronic.

    The initial ‘ACE Study” was conducted jointly by the CDC and Kaiser Permanente from 1995 - 1997. The study looked at how childhood traumas impacted adult health, surveying 17,000 participants. Adverse Experiences were grouped by category (e.g., family member with substance abuse, loss of parent). A score of one was given for each category with one’s total being their “ACE Score”. 70% of the participants had at least one ACE. The study found a direct link between childhood trauma and adult onset of social, emotional and cognitive impairment, maladaptive coping, disease, disability and premature death.

    There have been numerous subsequent studies which have expanded the categories of ACE, including complex and intergenerational trauma, bullying, community violence and foster care. The premise of these and other studies, such as the CDC’s ongoing Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, is to determine the types and extent of childhood trauma, the impact through the lifespan and then deliver that data in numbers.

    In the United States, 50% of children ages birth to 18 years have endured one or more traumatic experiences. CDC

    Having even a single ACE is associated with the risk for using illicit drugs, abusing alcohol, or attempting suicide - Debra Houry, MD, MPH CDC CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY 7.11.2019

  • Alcohol

    “Alcohol use among teenagers is mainly to cope with stress, anxiety, depression, problems at home and trauma.” Voices of Youth in Chicago Education

    • Every 24 hours, 6,500 youth (aged 12 to 17) use alcohol for the first time [8]

    • 25% of 13 year olds (8th graders) have consumed alcohol [9]

    • 30% of 10th graders have become intoxicated [9]

    • 50% of 12th graders have become intoxicated [9]

    • Every 24 hours, 13,400 youth (aged 12 to 20) binge drink (5 or more drinks in a row) [7]

    • 20% of college students meet the criteria for Alcohol Use Disorder (alcohol addiction) [10]

    • Youth ages 18 to 25 have the highest rate of heavy drinking (consuming 5 or more drinks in a row on 5 or more days in the past 30) of any age group [11]

    “Alcohol use by young people is extremely dangerous - both to themselves and society at large…producing human tragedies with alarming regularity.” Institute of Medicine National Academy of Sciences [13]

    90% of adults who abuse or are addicted to alcohol began drinking before age 18 [19]

    Youth who use alcohol before age 15 are six times more likely to be involved in an alcohol related crash before they turn 39. [20]

    • Every 2 ½ hours, one drunk youth driver (aged 21 to 24) kills themselves or others[17]

    in the United States, one of every two of us will be involved in a drunk driving crash in our lifetime.[17] The tragic outcome: every 2 minutes, one of us is injured in a drunk driving crash [18] – every 48 minutes, one of us dies in a drunk driving crash.[17]

  • Drug Abuse

    “Kids are starting to use drugs at ten, eleven, and twelve years old. Some of them start much earlier – smoking weed with older brothers and sisters or huffing glue or nail polish remover while they are still in elementary school. Some kids are using four, five or more drugs at a time. Their lives are complicated and filled with stress. They talk about bullying at school, family members who are addicted, friends who overdose or die in car crashes. They use drugs, they say, to cope, to get by, to kick back, to forget.” - Katherine Ketchum & Nicholas Pace, MD Teens Under the Influence [71]

    More than 62 percent of illicit drug dependent adults started using an illicit drug at age 14 or younger. [98]

    Every day, 15 youth ages 15 to 24 die from a drug overdose.

    If a youth lives to age 25, the risk triples, as every day, 47 of our younger adults ages 25 to 34 die from a drug overdose. 70% involve opioids.

    In 1999 the average age of a new heroin user was 27, now it's 19. - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [83]

    (1 of 5) 8th graders, (1 of 3) 10th graders and (1 of 2) 12th graders report having used illicit drugs

    78% of first-time cannabis (marijuana) users are between the ages of 12 and 20 years. [99]

    Michigan/NIH

    “All behaviors of addiction, from drugs to gambling to gaming, either directly soothe pain or distract from it. Temporarily, they all ease discomfort with the self. I (ask) people “What did it (the addiction) give you that you craved so much?” Universally, the answers are: “It helped me escape emotional pain… it numbed me… helped me deal with stress… gave me peace of mind… a sense of connection with others… a sense of control.” It (addiction) originates in a person’s attempt to solve genuine human problems: those of emotional loss, of overwhelming stress, of lost connection. It is a forlorn and ultimately futile attempt to solve the dilemma of human suffering.” - Gabor Mate MD Physician, Author, Addiction Expert [81]

  • Non-Suicidal Self Harm

    Self- harm, when an individual purposely injures oneself, is referred to as nonsuicidal self-injury, or NSSI, in research and clinical literature.[47,48,49]

    70% of adolescents who self-harm have made at least one suicide attempt and 55% have made multiple attempts.[47,48]

    Self-harm can act as a “gateway, enabling teens to acquire the capability for suicide”.[48]

    • Children as young as 7 years old self-harm [56]

    • Age 12 is the main age of onset for self-harm [57]

    • Children who self-harm at or before age 12 are more likely to injure themselves more frequently and severely than youth who begin self-injuring at age 17. [ 58]

    • Nearly 1 in 4 teenage girls and 1 in 10 teenage boys self-harm [59]

    • I in 3 college students self-harm [60,61]

    • Nearly one-third of young people who die of suicide have nonfatal self-harm events during the last 3 months of life [62]

    “Until 2008, the rate of self-inflicted injuries bad enough to land a young person in the emergency room was relatively stable. But since 2009, the rate of girls aged 10 to 14 arriving in American emergency rooms with self-inflicted injuries has increased by almost 19% per year, a pace far surpassing any other group.” Anderson, J. The number of young American girls turning to self-harm is skyrocketing.[65]

    United States youth have the highest burden of nonfatal self-inflicted injury requiring medical attention. Mercado, et al. Journal of the American Medical Association [63] & Ting, at al., General Hospital Psychiatry [66]

  • Suicide

    “Suicide happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain.” Conroy, PhD

    “It (suicide) happens in every kind of family, every hour of every day of every month of every year.” Diane Conn [46]

    • Suicide is the second leading cause of death for children and youth ages 10 to 24 [31]

    • The teen suicide rate has more than doubled from 2008 to 2015 [32]

    • One of every five college students contemplates suicide [33]

    • Every 81 seconds, a high school student contemplates suicide [34]

    • Every 4 minutes a young person (aged 10 to 24) attempts suicide [34]

    • Every 85 minutes, a young person (aged 10 to 24) commits suicide [34]

  • Treatment Statistics

    Anxiety affects 30 % of all children, 80% never get treatment (Child Mind Institute)

    Average treatment delay anxiety disorders: 9 - 23 years (Harvard, 2007)

    Average treatment delay mood disorders: 6 -8 years (Harvard, 2007)

    For ADHD, the most common childhood-onset neuro-behavioral disorder, the median treatment delay is 10.5 years (Columbia University, 2014) In those years with no treatment, a lot of damage can occur. ADHD alone contributes to an array of psychosocial problems, including

    1. increased interpersonal conflict,

    2. unintentional injuries,

    3. impaired driving,

    4. substance use,

    5. low educational attainment,

    6. occupational impairment, and

    7. criminal involvement

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