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Illicit Drug Use among Persons Arrested for Serious Crimes

 

The NSDUH Report:  Illicit Drug Use among Persons Arrested for Serious Crimes

Highlights:

  • Based on annual averages from SAMHSA's National Surveys on Drug Use and Health in 2002, 2003, and 2004, an estimated 1.2 million adults aged 18 or older (0.6%) were arrested for a serious violent or property offense in the past year. Serious violent or property offenses were defined as Part I violent and property offenses in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Part I violent offenses include arrests for murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Part I property offenses include arrests for burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.
  • Adults who were arrested in the past year for any serious violent or property offense were more likely to have used an illicit drug in the past year than those who were not arrested for a serious offense (60.1% vs. 13.6%).
  • Adults who had been arrested for serious violent or property offenses in the past year were more likely than those not arrested for serious offenses to have used marijuana (46.5% vs. 10.0%) and cocaine, crack cocaine, hallucinogens, methamphetamines, heroin and prescription drugs nonmedically.

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This Short Report, The NSDUH Report:  Illicit Drug Use among Persons Arrested for Serious Crimes, 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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