The
NHSDA Report: School Experiences and Substance Use Among Youths
Highlights:
- Students
aged 12 to 17 with positive school experiences were less likely to have
used alcohol or illicit drugs in the past year than students without
these positive school experiences. The youth with positive school
experiences were those who enjoyed going to school, who felt that their
assigned schoolwork was meaningful, or who felt that the things they
learned in school were going to be important later in life.
- Among
youths, females were more likely than males to have a positive attitude
toward school.
- Asian,
black, and Hispanic youths were more likely than white youths to have
a positive attitude toward school.
- The
rates of past year alcohol and illicit drug use were lower for youths
who had seen or heard drug or alcohol prevention messages at school
in the past year than youths who had NOT seen or heard drug or alcohol
prevention messages at school.
Reports
on School Influences
Reports on Youth
Other
Topics
This Short
Report, The NHSDA Report: School
Experiences and Substance Use Among Youths, 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 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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