The phrase "abuse rates" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing statistics or data related to the frequency of abuse in a specific context, such as domestic violence, substance abuse, or child abuse.
Example: "The report highlighted the rising abuse rates in the community over the past year."
Alternatives: "incidence of abuse" or "prevalence of abuse".
Of those that do, most report abuse rates far below the rates found by academic researchers.
"Central Asian countries show alarming signs of fast-increasing abuse rates," it says.
The study found that while child abuse rates rose, infant mortality rates fell from 1994 to 1995.
In a 2009 study of 806 teenage girls, Professor Neumark-Sztainer concluded that watching television during dinner had little impact on substance abuse rates.
— Posted by pryrodnyy, Brooklyn, NY Experts we spoke with did not believe abuse rates were any higher in the ultra-Orthodox community than in other communities.
Mr. Lawn said increases in arrests and seizures were "virtually across the board" in drug categories, despite the fact that cocaine was the only drug for which abuse rates rose significantly.
The Philippines has the highest abuse rate in East Asia for methamphetamines, known locally as shabu.
It found a substance use disorder rate, or what a layperson might call a substance abuse rate, of 2.9% among the general population, up from 1.5% in 2001.
This is why the general refuses to speak of a "drugs war", a metaphor that encourages the delusion that abuse can be eliminated by force, and talks instead of gradually reducing the abuse rate from 6% to 3%.
The news media often report that 81 million families, or 30 percent of China's 270 million families, live with domestic violence, a figure supported by a 2006 survey in Society, a scholarly journal, that also found a 30 percent abuse rate.
This article describes the Durham Family Initiative (DFI), an innovative effort to bring together child welfare and juvenile justice systems to reach DFI's goal of reducing the child abuse rate in Durham, North Carolina, by 50% within the next 10 years.
