Substance abuse

Quality:

Substance abuse - patterned use of a drug in which the user consumes the psychoactive/chemical substance substances in amounts or with methods which are harmful to themselves or others. Article “Substance abuse” in English Wikipedia has 92.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 152 references and 30 sections.

This article has the best quality in Slovenian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Substance abuse” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Substance abuse”, its content was written by 1028 registered users of English Wikipedia (6065^th place) and edited by 1538 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3504 times in English Wikipedia (7727^th place) and cited 7725 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #681 in June 2005
• Global: #1933 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4889 in April 2015
• Global: #12116 in February 2008

There are 33 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Slovenian (sl) Zloraba substanc		98.1228
2	English (en) Substance abuse		92.3685
3	Indonesian (id) Penyalahgunaan obat		86.2471
4	Chinese (zh) 物質濫用		84.3109
5	Armenian (hy) Թմրամիջոցների չարաշահում		79.9593
6	Hindi (hi) नशीली दवा का सेवन		73.0205
7	Simple English (simple) Substance abuse		69.9027
8	Hebrew (he) שימוש לרעה בסמים		51.9997
9	Hungarian (hu) Kábítószer-abúzus		46.3059
10	Swedish (sv) Substansmissbruk		44.7577

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Substance abuse		10 776 570
2	Arabic (ar) تعاطي المخدرات		755 706
3	Japanese (ja) 薬物乱用		684 226
4	Spanish (es) Abuso de sustancias		468 170
5	Hindi (hi) नशीली दवा का सेवन		292 118
6	Tamil (ta) போதைப்பொருள்		227 476
7	Chinese (zh) 物質濫用		185 883
8	Persian (fa) سوءمصرف مواد		181 732
9	Malay (ms) Penyalahgunaan bahan		168 053
10	French (fr) Abus de substances		120 593

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Substance abuse		25 250
2	Tamil (ta) போதைப்பொருள்		3 332
3	Arabic (ar) تعاطي المخدرات		2 828
4	Simple English (simple) Substance abuse		2 348
5	Japanese (ja) 薬物乱用		1 801
6	Chinese (zh) 物質濫用		1 263
7	Spanish (es) Abuso de sustancias		787
8	Russian (ru) Злоупотребление психоактивными веществами		640
9	Persian (fa) سوءمصرف مواد		587
10	Malay (ms) Penyalahgunaan bahan		524

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Substance abuse		1 028
2	Arabic (ar) تعاطي المخدرات		71
3	Japanese (ja) 薬物乱用		63
4	Chinese (zh) 物質濫用		44
5	Persian (fa) سوءمصرف مواد		36
6	Spanish (es) Abuso de sustancias		33
7	Swedish (sv) Substansmissbruk		24
8	French (fr) Abus de substances		23
9	Simple English (simple) Substance abuse		21
10	Estonian (et) Narkomaania		19

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Substance abuse		8
2	Chinese (zh) 物質濫用		1
3	Arabic (ar) تعاطي المخدرات		0
4	Catalan (ca) Abús de substàncies		0
5	Czech (cs) Zneužívání návykových látek		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Droga misuzado		0
7	Spanish (es) Abuso de sustancias		0
8	Estonian (et) Narkomaania		0
9	Basque (eu) Substantzien abusu		0
10	Persian (fa) سوءمصرف مواد		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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