Availability of Illicit Drugs to Females Aged 12 to 17

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 Highlights:

• Although adult females reported lower rates of past month illicit drug use than did adult males, use was comparable between females and males aged 12 to 17.

• Females aged 12 to 17 were more likely than their male peers to report that cocaine, crack, LSD, and heroin were fairly or very easy to obtain.

• Females aged 16 or 17 were more likely than females age 12 to 15 to report that illicit drugs were fairly or very easy to obtain.

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This Short Report,  The NHSDA Report:  Availability of Illicit Drugs to Females Aged 12 to 17,  is based on SAMHSA's  National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), now called the  National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).  The survey is 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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