The
OAS Report: A Day in the Life of American Adolescents: Substance
Use Facts
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format (also has the
data table used to construct each figure)
Highlights:
- Facts
about substance use among youth aged 12 to 17 are based on data from
SAMHSA's 2006 National Survey on Drug Use & Health (NSDUH) and SAMHSA's
2005 Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), and for clients under the age
of 18 from SAMHSA's 2005 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment
Services (N-SSATS). Data are presented on first substance use, past
year substance use, receipt of substance use treatment, and source of
substance use treatment referrals "on an average day."
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an average day in 2006, youth used the following substances for the
first time: 7,970 drank alcohol for the first time, 4,348 used an illicit
drug for the first time, 4,082 smoked cigarettes for the first time,
3,577 used marijuana for the first time, and 2,517 used pain relievers
nonmedically for the first time.
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Youth who used alcohol in the past month drank an average of 4.7 drinks
per day on the days they drank and those who smoked cigarettes in the
past month smoked an average of 4.6 cigarettes per day on the days they
smoked.
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a average day in 2005, the number of youth admissions to substance abuse
treatment were referred by the following sources: 189 by the criminal
justice system; 66 by self-referral or referral from other individuals;
43 by schools; 37 by community organizations; 22 by alcohol or drug
treatment providers; and 18 by other health providers.
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an average day in 2005, active substance abuse treatment clients under
the age of 18 received the following the types of substance abuse treatment:
76,240 were clients in outpatient treatment; 10,313 were clients in
non-hospital residential treatment; and 1,058 were clients in hospital
inpatient treatment.
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This Short
Report, The OAS Report: A
Day in the Life of American Adolescents: Substance Use Facts,
is based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug
Use and Health (NSDUH). The NSDUH is conducted by the Office
of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA). SAMHSA's survey (NSDUH) 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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