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Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide Attempts, Major Depressive Episode, & Substance Use among Adults |
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This Short Report, The OAS Report: Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide Attempts, Major Depressive Episode & Substance Use among Adults, is based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health and Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), 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 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. DAWN is a public health surveillance system that measures some of the health consequences of drug use by monitoring drug-related visits to hospital emergency departments in the United States. |
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SAMHSA, an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services, is the Federal Government's lead agency for improving the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment, and mental health services in the United States. ![]()
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