Percent of 18- to 25-year-olds reporting drug use during the past 30 days and the past year: 1982 to 1997

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Table 381

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                    |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
        Drug        |1982 |1985 |1988 |1990 |1991 |1992 |1993 |1994 |1995 |1996 |1997
____________________|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____
         1          |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  | 10  | 11  | 12
____________________|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____
                    |      Percent reporting drug use during past 30 days
                    |_________________________________________________________________
Any illicit use ....| --- |25.3 |17.9 |15.0 |15.4 |13.1 |13.6 |13.3 |14.2 |15.6 |14.7
  Marijuana\1\ .....|27.2 |21.7 |15.3 |12.7 |12.9 |10.9 |11.1 |12.1 |12.0 |13.2 |12.8
  Cocaine ..........| 7.0 | 8.1 | 4.8 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 1.2
                    |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
Alcohol ............|66.6 |70.1 |64.7 |62.8 |63.1 |58.6 |58.7 |63.1 |61.3 |60.0 |58.4
Cigarettes .........| --- |47.4 |45.6 |40.9 |41.7 |41.5 |37.9 |34.6 |35.3 |38.3 |40.6
                    |=====|=====|=====|=====|=====|=====|=====|=====|=====|=====|=====
                    |      Percent reporting drug use during past year
                    |_________________________________________________________________
Any illicit use ....| --- |37.4 |29.1 |26.1 |26.6 |24.1 |24.2 |24.6 |25.5 |26.8 |25.3
  Marijuana\1\ .....|37.4 |34.0 |26.1 |23.0 |22.9 |21.2 |21.4 |21.8 |21.8 |23.8 |22.3
  Cocaine ..........|15.9 |13.6 |10.5 | 6.5 | 6.7 | 5.5 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 4.7 | 3.9
                    |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
Alcohol ............|80.6 |84.2 |79.6 |78.1 |80.7 |75.6 |76.9 |78.5 |76.5 |75.3 |75.1
Cigarettes .........| --- |49.9 |50.9 |45.1 |46.9 |46.8 |43.7 |41.1 |42.5 |44.7 |45.9
____________________|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____

\1\Includes Hashish usage for 1996 and 1997.
---Data not available or low precision; no estimate reported.

NOTE.--Some 1982 data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, "Preliminary Estimates from the 1997 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse," 1998. (This table was prepared August 1999.)

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