The
NSDUH Report: Underage Alcohol Use: Where Do Young People
Drink?
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Highlights
- 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%).
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This Short
Report, The
NSDUH Report: Underage Alcohol Use: Where Do Young People
Drink?, 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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