The
OAS Report: A Day in the Life of American Adolescents: Substance
Use Facts
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format
(also has the data table used to construct each figure)
Highlights:
- Facts about substance
use among youth aged 12 to 17 are based on data from SAMHSA's 2006 National
Survey on Drug Use & Health (NSDUH) and SAMHSA's 2005 Treatment
Episode Data Set (TEDS), and for clients under the age of 18 from SAMHSA's
2005 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS).
Data are presented on first substance use, past year substance use,
receipt of substance use treatment, and source of substance use treatment
referrals "on an average day."
- On an average day in
2006, youth used the following substances for the first time: 7,970
drank alcohol for the first time, 4,348 used an illicit drug for the
first time, 4,082 smoked cigarettes for the first time, 3,577 used marijuana
for the first time, and 2,517 used pain relievers nonmedically for the
first time.
- Youth who used alcohol
in the past month drank an average of 4.7 drinks per day on the days
they drank and those who smoked cigarettes in the past month smoked
an average of 4.6 cigarettes per day on the days they smoked.
- On a average day in
2005, the number of youth admissions to substance abuse treatment were
referred by the following sources: 189 by the criminal justice system;
66 by self-referral or referral from other individuals; 43 by schools;
37 by community organizations; 22 by alcohol or drug treatment providers;
and 18 by other health providers.
- On an average day in
2005, active substance abuse treatment clients under the age of 18 received
the following the types of substance abuse treatment: 76,240 were clients
in outpatient treatment; 10,313 were clients in non-hospital residential
treatment; and 1,058 were clients in hospital inpatient treatment.
Reports on youth
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This Short Report, The
OAS Report: A Day in the Life of American Adolescents: Substance
Use Facts,
is based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug
Use and Health (NSDUH). The NSDUH is conducted by the Office
of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA). SAMHSA's survey (NSDUH) is the
primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences
of drug and alcohol use and abuse 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 by State.
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