The
NHSDA Report: Injection Drug Use
Highlights:
- From 1999 to 2001, an
annual average of 338,000 persons aged 12 or older used a needle to
inject cocaine, heroin, or stimulants during the past year.
- Young adults aged 18
to 25 were more likely to have injected drugs in the past year compared
with youths aged 12 to 17 or adults aged 26 or older.
- The last time injection
drug users used a needle for injecting drugs, 14 percent of past year
injection drug users knew or suspected someone else had used the needle
before them and 16 percent used a needle that someone used after them.
Other
Reports on Heroin, Opiates & Injecting Drug Use
Other
Drugs
Other Topics
Other OAS Publications
and Services
This Short Report, The
NHSDA Report: Injection Drug Use, is based
on SAMHSA's National Household Survey on Drug
Abuse (NHSDA), conducted by SAMHSA's 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 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 also provides estimates for drug use by
state.
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