The
NSDUH Report: Underage Alcohol Use: Where Do Young People Get Alcohol?
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Highlights
- SAMHSA's
2006 and 2007 National Surveys on Drug Use & Health were combined
to study how and where drinkers under the legal age, (i.e., drinkers
aged 12 to 20) obtained alcohol.
- Based
on combined data from SAMHSA's 2006 to 2007 National Surveys on Drug
Use & Health, an annual average of 28.1% of underage drinkers (10.8
million persons aged 12 to 20) drank alcohol in the past month. By age
group within the underage drinkers the rates were: 51.1% of those aged
18 to 20; 25.9% of those age 15 to 17; and 6.1% of those aged 12 to
14.
- Underage
drinkers who drank in the past month (i.e., current drinkers) obtained
their last alcohol drink as follows: 30.6% paid for the last alcoholic
drink, 26.4% got it for free from a nonrelative of legal drinking age,
14.6% got it for free from another underage person, 5.9% got it from
a parent or guardian, and 8.5% got it from another relative who was
of legal drinking age.
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This Short
Report, The
NSDUH Report: Underage Alcohol Use: Where Do Young People Get Alcohol?,
is based on SAMHSA's National Survey on
Drug Use and Health conducted by the Office of
Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA). SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and
Health (NSDUH) is the primary source of information on the prevalence,
patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse and for selected
mental health measures 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 and for selected mental health measures by State.
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