Substance Use Among American Indians or Alaska Natives 

The NHSDA Report:  Substance Use Among American Indians or Alaska Natives 

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• Annual averages based on combined data from SAMHSA's 1999, 2000, and 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse were used to compare substance use by American Indians  or Alaska Natives with substance use by Hispanics, Asians, Blacks and Whites.

• American Indians or Alaska Natives were more likely than other racial/ethnic groups to have used cigarettes or an illicit drug in the past month.  

• American Indians or Alaska Natives were more likely than Blacks or Asians to have engaged in binge or heavy drinking.  Binge drinking is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion.  Heavy drinking is defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of five or more days in the past 30 days.

• In 2001, American Indians or Alaska Natives had a higher rate of past year dependence or abuse on illicit drugs or alcohol than other racial/ethnic groups. 

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This Short Report, The NHSDA Report:  Substance Use Among American Indians or Alaska Natives, is based on SAMHSA's  National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) is now called SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). The NSDUH/NHSDA 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.   The NHSDA/NSDUH also provides estimates for drug use by State.

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