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new2007 National Survey on Drug Use & Health (HTML)  (PDF format): provides the latest data on prevalence and correlates of substance use, serious psychological distress, depression, related problems, and treatment in the civilian population aged 12 or older in the U.S.

newThe NSDUH Report:   Underage Alcohol Use: Where Do Young People Drink?   SAMHSA's 2006 National Survey on Drug Use & Health indicated that more than a fourth of the persons under the legal age for drinking actually drank in the past month; that is, there were 10.8 million current underage drinkers.   Over a half (53.4%) of the current underage alcohol users drank at someone else's home the last time they used alcohol and another 30.3% drank in their own home.   Younger female underage drinkers were more likely than older ones to have had their most recent drink in a car or other vehicle. For example, female underage drinkers aged 16 were eight times more likely to have had their last drank in a car than those aged 20 (12.8% vs. 1.6%).   Among current underage drinkers aged 20, females were almost twice as likely as males to have had their most recent drink in a restaurant, bar, or club (20.0% vs. 10.2%).

The NSDUH Report: Inhalant Use and Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12 to 17: 2004 to 2006   Combined data from SAMHSA's 2004 to 2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health were used to produce annual averages of an estimated 2.1 million youth (8.5%) who experienced a major depressive episode in the past year and 1.1 million youth (4.5%) who had used inhalants in the past year.    Based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 218,000 youth (0.9%) had both experienced at least one major depressive episode in the past year and used inhalants during the past year.    Youth who had experienced a major depressive episode in the past year were more than twice as likely as those without depression to have used inhalants in the past year (10.2% vs. 4.0%).    Among the youth who had both experienced a major depressive episode in the past year and reported inhalant use in the past year: 28.3% had used inhalants first in their lifetime before their first major depressive episode, 28.5% experienced both at the same age, and 43.1% had their first major depressive episode before first using inhalants.

The DASIS Report: First-Time and Repeat Admissions Aged 18 to 25 to Substance Abuse Treatment, 2006   Based on SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) on substance abuse treatment admissions in 2006, repeat admissions aged 18 to 25 were more likely than first-time admissions of the same age group to report heroin and other opiates as the primary substance of abuse (27% vs. 12%) and to report the use of multiple substances (67% vs. 56%).   The South was unlike any other region in that a majority of all admissions aged 18 to 25 were first-time admissions instead of repeat admissions, regardless of the primary substance of abuse.   The criminal justice system was the principal referral source to substance abuse treatment for all admissions aged 18 to 25 whether first-time substance abuse treatment admissions or repeat substance abuse treatment admissions.

The DASIS Report: Frequency of Use among Alcohol-Only Treatment Admissions: 2006  Based on substance abuse treatment admissions in 2006 reported to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 49% of the alcohol-only treatment admissions reporting daily use were referred to substance abuse treatment by themselves, a family member or a friend.   Over half (55%) of alcohol-only treatment admissions reporting less than daily use were referred to treatment by the criminal justice system.    Alcohol-only treatment admissions in 2006 reporting daily use were more likely than those reporting less frequent use to be "not in the labor force" (41% vs. 24%) and less likely to be employed full-time (20% vs. 41%).   Among alcohol-only treatment admissions, those reporting daily alcohol use were more likely than those reporting less frequent use to be homeless (26% vs. 9%).

The NSDUH Report:  Serious Psychological Distress Among Adults Aged 50 or Older: 2005 and 2006   Combined data from SAMHSA's 2005 and 2006 National Surveys on Drug Use & Health (NSDUH) indicate than an annual average of 7% of adults aged 50 or older experienced serious psychological distress in the past year. Adults aged 50 to 64 were more likely to experience past year serious psychological distress than those aged 65 or older (8.8% vs. 4.5%).  Adults aged 50 or older were more likely to experience serious psychological distress in the past year if they had less than a high school education than if they were college graduates (10.2% vs. 5.2%), had family incomes less than $20,000 compared with those with $75,000 or more (11.7% vs. 4.4%), and were without health insurance compared with those with health insurance (12.3% vs. 6.7%).  Over half (53.7%) of the adults aged 50 or older with past year serious psychological distress received mental health treatment in the past year, 6.2% did not receive treatment although they felt they needed it, and 40.1% did not receive treatment and did not perceive a need for it.

Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS):  2005 Discharges from Substance Abuse Treatment Services (HTML)    (PDF format) Providing data on treatment completion rates by type of substance abuse care (inpatient, outpatient, hospital, methadone maintenance, etc.)

Underage Alcohol Use: Findings from the 2002-2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (HTML)    (PDF format)

2004-2006 full subState report on State treatment planning areas (HTML) : New SubState report containing substance use prevalence, depression & serious psychological stress measures by State treatment planning areas  (PDF format recommended for printing)

The NSDUH Report:  Nonmedical Use of Pain Relievers in Substate Regions: 2004 to 2006  Combined data from SAMHSA's 2004-2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health indicate that past year nonmedical use of pain relievers ranged from a low of 2.48% in a ward of the District of Columbia to a high of 7.92% in northwest Florida.  Of the 15 substate regions with the highest rates of nonmedical use of pain relievers, 10 of the highest substate regions were in the South and 5 were in the West.  Of the 15 substate regions with the lowest rates of nonmedical use of pain relievers, 7 of the lowest substate regions were in the South, 4 were in the Midwest, 3 were in the Northeast, and 1 was in the West.

The NSDUH Report:  Parent Awareness of Youth Use of Cigarettes, Alcohol, and Marijuana   SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health includes a sample of parents and their children who live in the same household. These parent-child pairs are composed of a child aged 12 to 17 and his or her biological, step, adoptive, or foster parent.  Based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, mothers were more likely than fathers to be aware of their child's substance use in the past year regardless of the household having only the mother or both parents.  Fathers in two parent households were more likely than fathers in father-only households to be aware of their child's substance use in the past year.  The older the child, the more likely that parents were aware of their child's alcohol and cigarette use in the past year.  Past year substance use by youth was higher in one-parent households than those with both parents.  Within one-parent households, substance use by youth was generally higher among youth in father-child pairs than mother-child pairs.

The NSDUH Report:  State Estimates of Persons Aged 18 or Older Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol or Illicit Drugs   Based on the combined 2004 to 2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health data from current drivers aged 18 or older, 15.1% had driven under the influence of alcohol during the past year and 4.7% had driven under the influence of illicit drugs.   States with the highest rates of driving under the influence of alcohol in the past year among adults aged 18 or older were Wisconsin (26.4%), North Dakota (24.9%), Minnesota (23.5%), Nebraska (22.9%), and South Dakota (21.6%).   The highest rates of driving under the influence of illicit drugs in the past year among adults aged 18 or older were in the District of Columbia (7.0%), Rhode Island (6.8%), Massachusetts (6.4%), Montana (6.3%), and Wyoming (6.2%).

State Estimates of Substance Use from the 2005-2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (HTML)       (PDF format)

2006 Highlights: Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS)  Information is provided on the demographic and substance abuse characteristics of the 1.8 million annual admissions to treatment for abuse of alcohol and drugs in facilities that report to their State administrative systems.

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