Illicit Drug Use Among Youths Who Used Cigarettes and Alcohol

The NHSDA Report:  Illicit Drug Use Among Youths Who Used Cigarettes and Alcohol

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 Highlights:

• In 2000, approximately 52 percent of youths aged 12 to 17 who were daily cigarette smokers and 66 percent of youths who were heavy drinkers were also past month users of illicit drugs.

• Youths who were daily cigarette smokers or heavy drinkers were more likely to use illicit drugs than either daily smokers or heavy drinkers from older age groups.

• Youths who were past month users of both cigarettes and alcohol were more than twice as likely to have used illicit drugs than youths who used only cigarettes or only alcohol.

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This Short Report, The NHSDA Report:  Illicit Drug Use Among Youths Who Used Cigarettes and Alcohol, 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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