Inhalant Use Among Youths

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Highlights:

• In 2000, more than 2 million youths aged 12 to 17 reported using inhalants at least once in their lifetime.

• Between 1999 and 2000, the rate of past year inhalant use declined among youths aged 12 or 13.

• Youths who reported an average grade of "D" or below were more than 3 times as likely to have used inhalants during the past year as youths with an average grade of "A."

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This Short Report, The NHSDA Report:  Inhalant Use Among Youths, 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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