- The
NSDUH Report: Major Depressive Episode and Treatment for Depression
among Veterans Aged 21 to 39
Combined
data from SAMHSA's 2004 to 2007 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health
indicate than an annual average of 9.3% (312,000) veterans aged 21 to
39 experienced at least one major depressive episode in the past year.
Among
veterans aged 21 to 39 with a major depressive episode in the past year,
51.7% reported severe impairment in at least one of four role
domains (i.e., home management, work, close relationships with others,
and social life) and 23.5% reported very severe impairment in
at least one of the domains.
More
than half (59.6%) of veterans aged 21 to 39 who experienced a major
depressive episode in the past year received treatment for depression
in the past year.
- The
NSDUH Report: Inhalant Use and Major Depressive Episode among
Youths Aged 12 to 17: 2004 to 2006
Combined
data from SAMHSA's 2004 to 2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health
were used to produce annual averages of an estimated 2.1 million youth
(8.5%) who experienced a major depressive episode in the past year and
1.1 million youth (4.5%) who had used inhalants in the past year.
Based
on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 218,000
youth (0.9%) had both experienced at least one major depressive episode
in the past year and used inhalants during the past year.
Youth
who had experienced a major depressive episode in the past year were
more than twice as likely as those without deception to have used inhalants
in the past year (10.2% vs. 4.0%).
Among
the youth who had both experienced a major depressive episode in the
past year and reported inhalant use in the past year: 28.3% had used
inhalants first in their lifetime before their first major depressive
episode, 28.5% experienced both at the same age, and 43.1% had their
first major depressive episode before first using inhalants.
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The
NSDUH Report: Serious Psychological Distress Among Adults Aged
50 or Older: 2005 and 2006 Combined
data from SAMHSA's 2005 and 2006 National Surveys on Drug Use &
Health (NSDUH) indicate than an annual average of 7% of adults aged
50 or older experienced serious psychological distress in the past year.
Adults aged 50 to 64 were more likely to experience past year serious
psychological distress than those aged 65 or older (8.8% vs. 4.5%). Adults
aged 50 or older were more likely to experience serious psychological
distress in the past year if they had less than a high school education
than if they were college graduates (10.2% vs. 5.2%), had family incomes
less than $20,000 compared with those with $75,000 or more (11.7% vs.
4.4%), and were without health insurance compared with those with health
insurance (12.3% vs. 6.7%). Over
half (53.7%) of the adults aged 50 or older with past year serious psychological
distress received mental health treatment in the past year, 6.2% did
not receive treatment although they felt they needed it, and 40.1% did
not receive treatment and did not perceive a need for it.
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The
NSDUH Report: Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12
to 17 Based
on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 8.5% of youth (about
2.1 million youth) had experienced at least one major depressive episode
during the past year. Rates of depression varied by gender and age.
Female
youth were more than twice as likely as males to have experienced a
major depressive episode in the past year (12.7% vs. 4.6%).
Over
91% of the youth who experienced at least one major depressive episode
in the past year reported more than one period in their lifetime during
which for 2 weeks or longer they felt sadness, discouragement, or boredom
and also had other problems. Nearly
half (48.3%) of the youth with a major depressive episode in the past
year reported severe impairment in at least one of four major role domains
(home, school/work, family relationships, or social life) and 21% reported
very severe impairment in at least one of the domains.
Youth
with a major depressive episode who reported a very severe impairment
were unable to carry out normal activities on about 5 times more days
in the past year than those reporting no more than mild impairment (58.4
days vs. 11.7 days).
- The
NSDUH Report: Nonmedical Stimulant Use, Other Drug Use, Delinquent
Behaviors, and Depression Among Adolescents
SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated
that about 510,000 youth aged 12 to 17 (2%) used stimulants (including
methamphetamines) nonmedically in the past year in 2006. Nonmedical
use is defined as the use of prescription-type psychotherapeutic drugs
that were not prescribed for the respondent by a physician or were used
only for the experience or feeling they caused.
Over 71% of youth who used stimulants nonmedically in the
past year compared with 34% of youth who did not use stimulants nonmedically
also engaged in at least one of the six types of delinquent behaviors
in the past year that were included in SAMHSA's National Survey of Drug
Use. These delinquent behaviors were: (1) got into a serious fight,
(2) took part in a group fight against another group, (3) sold drugs,
(4) stole anything valued more than $50, (5) attacked someone, and (6)
carried a handgun. Youth who used stimulants nonmedically
in the past year were also more likely than youth who did not use stimulants
nonmedically to have experienced a major depressive episode in the past
year (23% vs. 8.1%).
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The
NSDUH Report: Depression and the Initiation of Alcohol and Other
Drug Use among Young Adults Combined
data from SAMHSA's 2005 and 2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health
found an annual average of 9.4% of young adults (about 3 million) had
experienced at least one major depressive episode during the past year.
Rates of major depressive episode varied by gender, racial group, and
Hispanic status. About 1.5 million young adults (25.1% of the
young adults who had not used alcohol previously) used alcohol for the
first time in the past year. About 870,000 young adults (6.1%
of the young adults who had not used an illicit drug previously) used
at least one illicit drug in the past year. Among young adults
who had not used alcohol previously, 33.7% of those with a major
depressive episode started using alcohol compared with 24.8% of the
young adults who had not experienced a major depressive episode in the
past year. Among young adults who had not used any illicit
drug previously, those who experienced a major depressive episode
in the past year were twice as likely to have initiated use of an illicit
drug than young adults who had not experienced a major depressive episode
in the past year (12.0% vs. 5.8%).
- The
NSDUH Report: Depression and the Initiation of Alcohol and Other
Drug Use among Youths Aged 12 to 17
Data from SAMHSA's 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and
Health were used to examine the following in the past year: major depressive
episode, initiation of alcohol or illicit drug use, and the association
between such new alcohol and/or illicit drug use and major depressive
episode. In 2005, 8.8% of youth (about 2.2 million youth) had experienced
at least one major depressive episode during the past year.
Rates of major depressive episode varied by gender and age. About 2.7
million youth (15.4% of the youth who had not used alcohol previously)
used alcohol for the first time in the past year. About
1.5 million youth (7.6% of the youth who had not used an illicit drug
previously) used at least one illicit drug in the past year. Among youth
who had not used alcohol or an illicit drug previously, those with a
major depressive episode were about twice as likely to start using alcohol
or an illicit drug as youth who had not experienced a major depressive
episode in the past year. Among youth who had not used alcohol
previously, 29.2% of those with a major depressive episode initiated
alcohol use compared with 14.5% youth who had not experienced a major
depressive episode in the past year. Among youth who had not used an
illicit drug previously, 16.1% of those with a major depressive episode
initiated illicit drug use compared with 6.9% youth who had not experienced
a major depressive episode in the past year.
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The
NSDUH Report: Substance Use Disorder and Serious Psychological
Distress by Employment Status
Among full time employed adults aged 18 to 64 in SAMHSA's National Survey
on Drug Use and Health, 10.6% were classified as having a past year
substance use disorder, 10.2% experienced serious psychological distress
during the past year, and 2.4% had co-occurring serious psychological
distress and a substance use disorder. Full time employed males in this
age group were nearly twice as likely to have a past year substance
use disorder than their female counterparts (13.2% vs. 6.9%). In contrast,
females were nearly twice as likely to have experienced serious psychological
distress during the past year than were the males (14.2% vs. 7.3%).
Of the 2.9 million adults aged 18 to 64 employed full time who had co-occurring
serious psychological distress and a substance use disorder, nearly
60% were not treated for either problem and less than 5% were treated
for both problems.
- The
New DAWN Report: Emergency Department Visits Involving Patients
with Co-occurring Disorders
During
2004, an estimated 192,690 patients in drug-related emergency department
visits were diagnosed with co-occurring substance use and mental disorders.
When emergency department visits involved co-occurring disorders, 40.4%
were treated and released home or referred to detoxification or other
drug treatment and 42.2% were admitted to inpatient units including
chemical dependency or detoxification units. Of the emergency
department visits with co-occurring diagnosis, the drug most frequently
reported were cocaine (31.8%), alcohol (29.3%), opiates/opioids (18.0%),
and marijuana (16.3%).
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The
New DAWN Report: Disposition of Emergency Department Visits
for Drug-Related Suicide Attempts by Adolescents, 2004
According
to SAMHSA's Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), in 2004 there were
over 15,000 emergency department visits by adolescents aged 12 to 17
whose suicide attempts involved drugs. Pain medications
were involved in about half of the suicide attempts. Almost three
quarters of the drug related suicide attempts were serious enough to
merit the patient's admission to the same hospital or transfer to another
health care facility. Antidepressants or other psychotherapeutic
medications were involved in over 40% of the suicide attempts by adolescents
who were admitted to the hospital.
- The NSDUH Report:
Serious Psychological Distress and Substance Use among Young Adult Males
SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2002 through 2004
assessed whether respondents met criteria for serious psychological
distress during the month in the past year when respondents were at
their worst emotionally. An estimated 10.3% of males aged 18 to 25 (1.6
million persons) experienced serious psychological distress during the
past year. Divorced or separated males aged 18 to 25 (20.9%) were more
likely to have experienced serious psychological distress during the
past year than those who were married (7.3%) or never married (10.5%).
Males aged 18 to 25 with serious psychological distress during the past
year were more likely than those without past year serious psychological
distress to have engaged in heavy alcohol use (27.2% vs. 20.7%), binge
alcohol use (56.7% vs. 49.9%), and illicit drug use (35.6% vs. 22.1%)
in the past month.
- The
DASIS Report: Facilities
Offering Special Programs or Groups for Clients with Co-Occurring Disorders,
2004
Of
the 13,454 facilities that responded to SAMHSA's National Survey of
Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 4756 facilities (35%)
had special programs or groups for clients with co-occurring psychiatric
and substance use disorders in 2004.
Facilities operated by State governments were most likely to offer special
programs or groups for clients with co-occurring substance abuse and
psychiatric disorders (50%), followed by those operated by local governments
(44%), the Federal government (41%) and private non-profit organizations
(36%). Facilities
operated by private-for-profit organizations (31%) and Tribal governments
(29%) were least likely to offer special programs or groups for clients
with co-occurring substance abuse and psychiatric disorders Facilities
with special programs or groups for clients with co-occurring substance
abuse and psychiatric disorders were more likely than those not offering
such special programs or groups to offer a number of services, including
family counseling (83% vs. 73%), Hepatitis B testing (30% vs. 19%),
transitional social services (65% vs. 49%), domestic violence services
(40% vs. 29%), and HIV testing (38% vs. 28%).
- The
NSDUH Report: Depression among Adolescents
An estimated 9% of adolescents aged 12 to 17 (approximately
2.2 million adolescents) had experienced at least one major depressive
episode during the past year as reported in SAMHSA's 2004 National Survey
on Drug Use and Health. Among adolescents aged 12 to 17 who experienced
at least one major depressive episode during the past year, 40.3% reported
having received treatment for depression during the past year. Adolescents
who had experienced a major depressive episode in the past year were
more than twice as likely to have used illicit drugs in the past month
than their peers who had not experienced a major depressive episode
in the past year (21.2% vs. 9.6%).
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The NSDUH Report: Depression
among Adults As
reported in SAMHSA's 2004 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an
estimated 8% of adults aged 18 or older (approximately 17.1 million
adults) had experienced at least one major depressive episode during
the past year. Among adults aged 18 or older who experienced at least
one major depressive episode during the past year, 65.1% reported having
received treatment for depression during the past year. The rate of
past month illicit drug use was nearly twice as high among adults who
had experienced a major depressive episode in the past year (14.2%)
compared with adults who had not experienced a major depressive episode
in the past year (7.3%).
- The
NSDUH Report: Mother's Serious Mental Illness and Substance
Use among Youths
Based
on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2002 and 2003,
an annual average of 18 million women aged 18 or older lived with a
biological, foster, step, or adoptive child aged 12 to 17. About 11.9%
of mothers (2.1 million) living with youths aged 12 to 17 had serious
mental illness during the past year. About 3.2% of the mothers had both
serious mental illness and also reported illicit drug use, binge alcohol
use, or heavy alcohol use during the past month. Youths
living with a mother who had serious mental illness (SMI) were more
likely to have used alcohol or an illicit drug during the past month
(26.7%) than youths living with a mother who did not have SMI (18.8%).
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The NSDUH Report: Suicidal
Thoughts among Youths Aged 12 to 17 with Major Depressive Episode
In
SAMHSA's 2004 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 14%
of youths aged 12 to 17, approximately 3.5 million youths, had experienced
at least one major depressive episode in their lifetime. Over 7%, an
estimated 1.8 million youths, had lifetime major depressive episode
and thought about killing themselves at the time of their worst or most
recent episode. An estimated 712,000 youths had tried to kill themselves
during their worst or most recent major depressive episode; this represents
2.9% of those aged 12 to 17.
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The
NSDUH Report: Male
Veterans with Co-Occurring Serious Mental Illness and a Substance Use
Disorder Among
males aged 18 and older in 2002 and 2003, SAMHSA's National Survey on
Drug Use and Health found an estimated 8% (2 million) of veterans and
14.6% (11.1 million) nonveterans were dependent on or abusing alcohol
or illicit drugs. An estimated 4.6% (1.2 million) of veterans and 7%
(5.3 million) nonveterans had a serious mental illness. An estimated
340,000 male veterans had co-occurring serious mental illness (SMI)
and a substance use disorder in 2002 and 2003. Although not statistically
significant, within each age group of males the veterans had higher
rates of these co-occurring disorders than nonveterans: aged 18 to 25
(6.4% veterans vs. 4.5% nonveterans); aged 26 to 54 (2.5% veterans vs.
2% nonveterans); and aged 55 or older (0.6% veterans vs. 0.3% nonveterans).
- The
NSDUH Report: Women with Co-Occurring Serious Mental Illness
and a Substance Use Disorder
Based on SAMHSA's 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, nearly
2 million women aged 18 or older were estimated to have both serious
mental illness (SMI) and a substance use disorder during the past year.
Women with co-occurring SMI and a substance use disorder were more likely
than men with co-occurring SMI and a substance use disorder to have
received treatment for a mental disorder and/or specialty substance
use treatment during the past year.
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The NSDUH Report: Age
at First Use of Marijuana and Past Year Serious Mental Illness Based
on SAMHSA's 2002 and 2003 National Surveys on Drug Use & Health
(NSDUH), an estimated 90.8 million adults (42.9%) aged 18 or older had
used marijuana at least once in their lifetime. Among lifetime marijuana
users aged 18 or older, 2.1% reported that they first used marijuana
before age 12; 52.7% reported first marijuana use between ages 12 and
17, and 45.2% reported first marijuana use at age 18 or older. About
12.5 % of persons aged 18 or older who reported lifetime marijuana use
were classified as having a serious mental illness (SMI) in the past
year. Adults who first used marijuana before age 12 (21%) were twice
as likely as adults who first used marijuana at age 18 or older (10.5%)
to be classified as having a serious mental illness in the past year.
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Serious Mental Illness and Its Co-Occurrence
with Substance Use Disorders, 2002 Based on SAMHSA's
National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in 2002, there were 17.5 million
adults aged 18 or older with serious mental illness (SMI) during the
12 months prior to being interviewed. This represents 8.3% of all adults
in the United States. On average, adults with SMI were younger, less
educated, and more likely to be female than adults without SMI.
The two racial/ethnic groups with the highest prevalence of SMI were
those reporting more than one race (13.6%) and American Indians and
Alaska Natives (12.5%). The prevalence of SMI was more than twice
as high among those who used an illicit drug during the past year than
it was among those who did not (17.1 vs. 6.9%). This relationship was
observed across most demographic and socioeconomic subgroups and across
most types of illicit drugs used. In 2002, there were 5 million
adults aged 18 or older who had SMI and used an illicit drug in the
past year; this represented 28.9% of all persons with SMI.
- 2001
State Estimates of Substance Use.
For the first time,
SAMHSA's National Household Survey on Drug Abuse provides state-level
estimates of serious mental illness and includes maps showing the prevalence
ranks by States. The States with the highest rates of serious
mental illness among adults age 18 and older were mostly in the South.
However, Oklahoma had the highest rate and Hawaii had the lowest rate
of serious mental illness among adults. Also, State-level data
and the average yearly change between 1999 and 2001 are presented for
18 measures of substance use, dependence, and treatment.
- The
NHSDA Report: Risk of Suicide Among Hispanic Females Aged
12 to 17 In 2000, Hispanic females
aged 12 to 17 were at higher risk for suicide than other youths.
Rates of suicide risk were similar among Hispanic female youths across
regions and ethnic subgroups (e.g., Mexican, Puerto Rican, Central or
South American and Cuban). Only 32 percent of Hispanic female
youths at risk for suicide during the past year, however, received mental
health treatment during this same time period.
- The
NHSDA Report: Youth Violence and Substance Use,
2001 Update Among youths
aged 12 to 17, those aged 14 or 15 reported higher rates than those
younger or older for the following violent behaviors: serious
fighting at school or work, group-against-group fights, and attacking
others with the intent of seriously hurting them.
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2001
National Household Survey on Drug Abuse In 2001, an estimated
15.9 million Americans age 12 years or older used an illicit drug in
the month immediately prior to the survey interview. About 10.1
million persons age 12 to 20 years reported current alcohol use,
i.e., were underage drinkers. In the 12 months preceding the interview
in 2001, an estimated 3.1 million persons age 12 or older received some
kind of treatment for a problem related to the use of alcohol or illicit
drugs; of these, 1.6 million received treatment at a self-help group.
In 2001, there were an estimated 14.8 million adults age 18 or older
with a serious mental illness; an estimated 3 million had both a serious
mental illness and substance abuse or dependence problems during the
year.
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The
NSDUH Report: Adolescent Mental Health: Service Settings and
Reasons for Receiving Care
SAMHSA's
2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health provides data on the types
of mental health settings where youth aged 12 to 17 received treatment
or counseling for problems with behavior or emotions in the past year:
12.5% received their treatment or counseling in a specialty mental health
setting, 11.5% in an educational setting, and 2.8% in a general medical
setting. One in twenty (5.1%) of the youth received treatment or counseling
for their behavioral or emotional problems in both a specialty mental
health setting and an educational or general medical setting.
The
most common reasons for which the youth received mental health services
were: feeling depressed (50%), problems at home/family (28.8%), breaking
rules or "acting out" (25.1%) and thought about killing self
or tried to kill self (20.2%).
While
there were no gender differences in the receipt of care in inpatient
specialty settings, female youth were more likely than males to receive
mental health services in outpatient specialty, educational, or general
medical settings.
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The
NSDUH Report: Mental Health Service Use among Youths Aged 12
to 17: 2005 and 2006 Combined
2005 and 2006 data from SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health
indicate that an annual average of 3.3 million youths aged 12 to 17
(13.3%) received services for emotional or behavioral problems in a
specialty mental health setting in the past year.
About
3 million youth (12%) received services for emotional or behavioral
problems in a school-based setting, and around 752,000 (3%) received
such services in a general medical setting.
Female
youths were more likely than their male counterparts to receive services
for emotional or behavioral problems in a specialty mental health or
educational setting.
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The
NSDUH Report: Out-of-Home Services for Emotional or Behavioral
Problems among Youths Aged 12 to 17: 2002 to 2006
Combined
2002 to 2006 data from SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health
indicate that an estimated 2.6% of youths aged 12 to 17 reported receiving
out-of-home services for emotional or behavioral problems in the past
12 months in a hospital, a residential treatment center or a foster
care or therapeutic foster care setting.
Among
youths aged 12 to 17 who received any type of out-of-home services for
emotional or behavioral problems in the past 12 months, about half reported
staying only for one or two nights.
The
reported length of time spent in out-of-home services settings in the
past year varied by gender; in general, male youths aged 12 to 17 were
more likely to report having stayed for one night, while their female
counterparts were more likely to report having stayed for seven nights
or longer.
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The
NSDUH Report: Inhalant Use and Major Depressive Episode among
Youths Aged 12 to 17: 2004 to 2006
Combined
data from SAMHSA's 2004 to 2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health
were used to produce annual averages of an estimated 2.1 million youth
(8.5%) who experienced a major depressive episode in the past year and
1.1 million youth (4.5%) who had used inhalants in the past year.
Based
on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 218,000
youth (0.9%) had both experienced at least one major depressive episode
in the past year and used inhalants during the past year.
Youth
who had experienced a major depressive episode in the past year were
more than twice as likely as those without deception to have used inhalants
in the past year (10.2% vs. 4.0%).
Among
the youth who had both experienced a major depressive episode in the
past year and reported inhalant use in the past year: 28.3% had used
inhalants first in their lifetime before their first major depressive
episode, 28.5% experienced both at the same age, and 43.1% had their
first major depressive episode before first using inhalants.
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The
NSDUH Report: Major Depressive Episode among Youths Aged 12
to 17 Based
on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 8.5% of youth (about
2.1 million youth) had experienced at least one major depressive episode
during the past year. Rates of depression varied by gender and age.
Female
youth were more than twice as likely as males to have experienced a
major depressive episode in the past year (12.7% vs. 4.6%).
Over
91% of the youth who experienced at least one major depressive episode
in the past year reported more than one period in their lifetime during
which for 2 weeks or longer they felt sadness, discouragement, or boredom
and also had other problems. Nearly
half (48.3%) of the youth with a major depressive episode in the past
year reported severe impairment in at least one of four major role domains
(home, school/work, family relationships, or social life) and 21% reported
very severe impairment in at least one of the domains.
Youth
with a major depressive episode who reported a very severe impairment
were unable to carry out normal activities on about 5 times more days
in the past year than those reporting no more than mild impairment (58.4
days vs. 11.7 days).
- The
NSDUH Report: Nonmedical Stimulant Use, Other Drug Use, Delinquent
Behaviors, and Depression Among Adolescents
SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated
that about 510,000 youth aged 12 to 17 (2%) used stimulants (including
methamphetamines) nonmedically in the past year in 2006. Nonmedical
use is defined as the use of prescription-type psychotherapeutic drugs
that were not prescribed for the respondent by a physician or were used
only for the experience or feeling they caused.
Over 71% of youth who used stimulants nonmedically in the
past year compared with 34% of youth who did not use stimulants nonmedically
also engaged in at least one of the six types of delinquent behaviors
in the past year that were included in SAMHSA's National Survey of Drug
Use. These delinquent behaviors were: (1) got into a serious fight,
(2) took part in a group fight against another group, (3) sold drugs,
(4) stole anything valued more than $50, (5) attacked someone, and (6)
carried a handgun. Youth who used stimulants nonmedically
in the past year were also more likely than youth who did not use stimulants
nonmedically to have experienced a major depressive episode in the past
year (23% vs. 8.1%).
- The
NSDUH Report: Depression and the Initiation of Alcohol and Other
Drug Use among Youths Aged 12 to 17
Data from SAMHSA's 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and
Health were used to examine the following in the past year: major depressive
episode, initiation of alcohol or illicit drug use, and the association
between such new alcohol and/or illicit drug use and major depressive
episode. In 2005, 8.8% of youth (about 2.2 million youth) had experienced
at least one major depressive episode during the past year.
Rates of major depressive episode varied by gender and age. About 2.7
million youth (15.4% of the youth who had not used alcohol previously)
used alcohol for the first time in the past year. About
1.5 million youth (7.6% of the youth who had not used an illicit drug
previously) used at least one illicit drug in the past year. Among youth
who had not used alcohol or an illicit drug previously, those with a
major depressive episode were about twice as likely to start using alcohol
or an illicit drug as youth who had not experienced a major depressive
episode in the past year. Among youth who had not used alcohol
previously, 29.2% of those with a major depressive episode initiated
alcohol use compared with 14.5% youth who had not experienced a major
depressive episode in the past year. Among youth who had not used an
illicit drug previously, 16.1% of those with a major depressive episode
initiated illicit drug use compared with 6.9% youth who had not experienced
a major depressive episode in the past year.
- The
New DAWN Report: Disposition of Emergency Department Visits for
Drug-Related Suicide Attempts by Adolescents, 2004
According
to SAMHSA's Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), in 2004 there were
over 15,000 emergency department visits by adolescents aged 12 to 17
whose suicide attempts involved drugs. Pain
medications were involved in about half of the suicide attempts.
Almost three quarters of the drug related suicide attempts were serious
enough to merit the patient's admission to the same hospital or transfer
to another health care facility. Antidepressants or other
psychotherapeutic medications were involved in over 40% of the suicide
attempts by adolescents who were admitted to the hospital.
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The
NSDUH Report: Depression among Adolescents
An estimated 9% of adolescents aged 12 to 17 (approximately 2.2
million adolescents) had experienced at least one major depressive episode
during the past year as reported in SAMHSA's 2004 National Survey on
Drug Use and Health. Among adolescents aged 12 to 17 who experienced
at least one major depressive episode during the past year, 40.3% reported
having received treatment for depression during the past year. Adolescents
who had experienced a major depressive episode in the past year were
more than twice as likely to have used illicit drugs in the past month
than their peers who had not experienced a major depressive episode
in the past year (21.2% vs. 9.6%).
- The
DASIS Report: Adolescents with Co-Occurring Psychiatric Disorders:
2003
Of
the approximately 78,000 admissions aged 12 to 17 in the 26 States that
reported presence or absence of co-occurring problems to SAMHSA's Treatment
Episode Data Set (TEDS), about 16,000 (21%) were admissions with a co-occurring
psychiatric problem in addition to an alcohol and/or drug problem.
Adolescent admissions
with co-occurring disorders were more likely to be female than adolescent
admissions for only substance use disorders (38% vs. 28%). Nearly
three-quarters of adolescent admissions with co-occurring disorders
were White (72%) compared to half of adolescent admissions for only
substance use disorders (51%). Criminal justice system referrals for
treatment were the most common source of referral for both adolescent
admissions with co-occurring disorders (48%) and adolescent admissions
for only substance use disorders (57%).
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The
NSDUH Report: Mother's Serious Mental Illness and Substance
Use among Youths
Based
on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2002 and 2003,
an annual average of 18 million women aged 18 or older lived with a
biological, foster, step, or adoptive child aged 12 to 17. About 11.9%
of mothers (2.1 million) living with youths aged 12 to 17 had serious
mental illness during the past year. About 3.2% of the mothers had both
a serious mental illness and also reported illicit drug use, binge alcohol
use, or heavy alcohol use during the past month. Youths
living with a mother who had serious mental illness (SMI) were more
likely to have used alcohol or an illicit drug during the past month
(26.7%) than youths living with a mother who did not have SMI (18.8%).
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The NSDUH Report: Suicidal
Thoughts among Youths Aged 12 to 17 with Major Depressive Episode
In
SAMHSA's 2004 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 14%
of youths aged 12 to 17, approximately 3.5 million youths, had experienced
at least one major depressive episode in their lifetime. Over 7%, an
estimated 1.8 million youths, had lifetime major depressive episode
and thought about killing themselves at the time of their worst or most
recent episode. An estimated 712,000 youths had tried to kill themselves
during their worst or most recent major depressive episode; this represents
2.9% of those aged 12 to 17.
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The NSDUH Report: Age
at First Use of Marijuana and Past Year Serious Mental Illness Based
on SAMHSA's 2002 and 2003 National Surveys on Drug Use & Health
(NSDUH), an estimated 90.8 million adults (42.9%) aged 18 or older had
used marijuana at least once in their lifetime. Among lifetime marijuana
users aged 18 or older, 2.1% reported that they first used marijuana
before age 12; 52.7% reported first marijuana use between ages 12 and
17, and 45.2% reported first marijuana use at age 18 or older. About
12.5 % of persons aged 18 or older who reported lifetime marijuana use
were classified as having a serious mental illness (SMI) in the past
year. Adults who first used marijuana before age 12 (21%) were twice
as likely as adults who first used marijuana at age 18 or older (10.5%)
to be classified as having a serious mental illness in the past year.
- The
NHSDA Report: Youth Violence and Substance Use,
2001 Update
Among
youths aged 12 to 17, those aged 14 or 15 reported higher rates than
those younger or older for the following violent behaviors: serious
fighting at school or work, group-against-group fights, and attacking
others with the intent of seriously hurting them.
- The
NSDUH Report: Substance Use Among Youths Who Had Run Away From
Home
Based
on SAMHSA's 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately
1.6 million youth (7%) aged 12 to 17 had run away from home and slept
on the street in the past 12 months. Among youths aged 12 or 13, 6%
had run away and among those aged 16 or 17, 10% had run away from home
in the past 12 months. Youths who had run away from home in the past
12 months were more likely to have used alcohol, marijuana, or an illicit
drug other than marijuana in the past year than youths who had not run
away. Alcohol was used in the past year by 50% of the runaway youths
aged 12 to 17 and 33% of those who had not run away from home. Marijuana
was used in the past year by 23% of the runaways aged 12 to 18 and 12%
of those who had not run away from home.
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