The
NSDUH Report: Inhalant Use and Major Depressive Episode among
Youths Aged 12 to 17: 2004 to 2006
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Highlights:
- Major
depressive episodes in lifetime or past year were assessed in SAMHSA's
National Survey on Drug Use and Health among youth aged 12 to 17. A
major depressive episode was defined using the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria
which specifies a period of two weeks or longer during which there is
either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure and at least four
other symptoms that reflect a change in functioning (such as problems
with sleeping, eating, energy, concentration, and self image).
- 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 in their lifetime first 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.
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This Short
Report, The NSDUH
Report: Inhalant Use and Major Depressive Episode among Youths
Aged 12 to 17: 2004 to 2006, is based on SAMHSA's National
Survey on Drug Use and Health conducted by the Office
of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA). SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug
Use and Health (NSDUH) is the primary source of information on the prevalence,
patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse and for selected
mental health measures in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized
population, age 12 and older. SAMHSA's
National Survey on Drug Use & Health also provides estimates for drug
use and for selected mental health measures by State.
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