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 Simple English Wikipedia has 63 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 34 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.31 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6979^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5374^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6904^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Substance abuse” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (5374^th place) and written by 25 authors in all languages (6904^th place).

Since the creation of article “Substance abuse”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1586 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 138 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8345 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #192 in February 2020
• Global: #1937 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1130 in September 2021
• Global: #12181 in February 2008

There are 35 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, 2026 (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		97.9782
2	Korean (ko) 약물 남용		94.9567
3	English (en) Substance abuse		92.5572
4	Indonesian (id) Penyalahgunaan obat		85.7593
5	Armenian (hy) Թմրամիջոցների չարաշահում		79.7195
6	Chinese (zh) 物質濫用		79.6234
7	Hindi (hi) नशीली दवा का सेवन		72.9308
8	German (de) Suchtmittelmissbrauch		63.4961
9	Simple English (simple) Substance abuse		62.9707
10	Hebrew (he) שימוש לרעה בסמים		51.0997

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Substance abuse		11 040 154
2	Arabic (ar) تعاطي المخدرات		872 618
3	Japanese (ja) 薬物乱用		699 358
4	Spanish (es) Abuso de sustancias		475 126
5	Hindi (hi) नशीली दवा का सेवन		294 482
6	Tamil (ta) போதைப்பொருள்		237 479
7	Chinese (zh) 物質濫用		198 274
8	Persian (fa) سوءمصرف مواد		191 739
9	Malay (ms) Penyalahgunaan bahan		172 132
10	French (fr) Abus de substances		124 314

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		15 939
2	Tamil (ta) போதைப்பொருள்		1 296
3	Persian (fa) سوءمصرف مواد		1 158
4	Chinese (zh) 物質濫用		1 027
5	Japanese (ja) 薬物乱用		863
6	Russian (ru) Злоупотребление психоактивными веществами		507
7	Spanish (es) Abuso de sustancias		372
8	French (fr) Abus de substances		338
9	German (de) Suchtmittelmissbrauch		207
10	Hindi (hi) नशीली दवा का सेवन		165

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		1 047
2	Arabic (ar) تعاطي المخدرات		71
3	Japanese (ja) 薬物乱用		66
4	Chinese (zh) 物質濫用		50
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		22
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	German (de) Suchtmittelmissbrauch		12
2	Russian (ru) Злоупотребление психоактивными веществами		2
3	Catalan (ca) Abús de substàncies		1
4	Czech (cs) Zneužívání návykových látek		1
5	English (en) Substance abuse		1
6	Spanish (es) Abuso de sustancias		1
7	Estonian (et) Narkomaania		1
8	Basque (eu) Substantzien abusu		1
9	Japanese (ja) 薬物乱用		1
10	Korean (ko) 약물 남용		1

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

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