The
NSDUH Report: Methamphetamine Use
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Highlights:
- Methamphetamine
use as recorded by SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
includes both prescription preparations (i.e., Desoxyn® and Methedrine)
and non-prescription/illicit methamphetamine. Over-the-counter drugs
are not included. Methamphetamine data are collected as part of the
NSDUH module on nonmedical use of prescription-type stimulants.
- The
number of persons who used methamphetamine for the first time in the
prior 12 months did not differ significantly between 2002 (299,000 persons)
and 2004 (318,000 persons) but did decrease significantly between 2004
and 2005. In 2004, an estimated 318,000 persons aged 12 or older first
tried methamphetamine in the year prior to the survey compared with
192,000 persons in 2005.
- Combined
data from the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health from 2002
to 2005 were used to examine demographic differences in methamphetamine
use. Persons in large metropolitan areas (0.5%) were less likely to
have used methamphetamine in the past year than those in small metropolitan
areas (0.7%) and in non-metropolitan areas (0.8%).
This Short
Report, The NSDUH Report: Methamphetamine
Use, is based on SAMHSA's National
Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) conducted by SAMHSA's
Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). SAMHSA's National Survey
on Drug Use and Health 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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