Table 3.4 Admissions by primary substance of abuse, according to frequency of use, usual route of administration, and age at first use: TEDS 2005 Percent distribution |
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[Based on administrative data reported to TEDS by all reporting States and jurisdictions. See Table 4.2a.] | ||||||||||||||||
Frequency of use, usual route of administration, and age at first use | All admis-sions | Primary substance at admission | ||||||||||||||
Alcohol | Opiates | Cocaine | Mari-juana/ hashish | Stimulants | Tran-quil-izers | Seda-tives | Hallu-cino-gens | PCP | Inhal-ants | Other/ none speci-fied | ||||||
Alcohol only | With secondary drug | Heroin | Other opiates | Smoked cocaine | Other route | Metham-phetamine/ amphet-amine | Other stimu-lants | |||||||||
Total | 1,849,548 | 398,656 | 324,990 | 254,345 | 67,887 | 185,236 | 71,255 | 292,250 | 169,489 | 981 | 8,039 | 4,361 | 2,057 | 2,807 | 1,372 | 65,823 |
Frequency of use | ||||||||||||||||
No use in the past month | 27.3 | 26.4 | 26.9 | 14.1 | 19.9 | 24.9 | 33.0 | 35.4 | 38.9 | 31.6 | 20.3 | 28.6 | 52.2 | 46.4 | 31.9 | 35.1 |
1-3 times in the past month | 11.9 | 15.0 | 12.4 | 2.9 | 4.8 | 10.7 | 14.6 | 16.6 | 13.0 | 12.1 | 8.0 | 8.9 | 11.5 | 13.2 | 16.3 | 8.2 |
1-2 times per week | 8.8 | 12.1 | 9.7 | 2.2 | 3.4 | 9.2 | 11.1 | 10.1 | 8.5 | 9.1 | 4.8 | 6.2 | 7.0 | 8.2 | 7.5 | 6.5 |
3-6 times per week | 11.4 | 12.6 | 12.2 | 5.7 | 8.6 | 15.0 | 14.3 | 11.8 | 11.7 | 14.4 | 9.1 | 11.5 | 9.5 | 10.5 | 13.2 | 8.8 |
Daily | 40.5 | 33.9 | 38.7 | 75.2 | 63.3 | 40.2 | 27.0 | 26.1 | 27.9 | 32.7 | 57.8 | 44.8 | 19.8 | 21.6 | 31.1 | 41.4 |
Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
No. of admissions | 1,760,677 | 383,852 | 319,096 | 252,850 | 67,302 | 182,808 | 69,825 | 288,426 | 167,845 | 963 | 7,920 | 4,312 | 2,023 | 2,774 | 1,352 | 9,329 |
Usual route of administration | ||||||||||||||||
Oral | 44.3 | 99.3 | 99.5 | 1.2 | 71.8 | - - | 5.0 | 2.0 | 4.6 | 53.6 | 93.0 | 89.7 | 59.2 | 6.3 | 4.0 | 53.3 |
Smoking | 33.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 100.0 | - - | 96.9 | 62.9 | 32.4 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 29.8 | 89.4 | 5.5 | 17.5 |
Injection | 11.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 63.0 | 12.2 | - - | 11.4 | 0.1 | 18.9 | 6.8 | 1.1 | 3.8 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 3.1 |
Inhalation | 9.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 32.9 | 13.1 | - - | 80.6 | 0.8 | 12.4 | 6.8 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 2.7 | 87.6 | 6.2 |
Other | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.9 | - - | 3.1 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 20.0 |
Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
No. of admissions | 1,751,849 | 379,783 | 313,783 | 252,332 | 67,312 | 185,236 | 67,748 | 289,996 | 167,024 | 970 | 7,907 | 4,315 | 2,025 | 2,752 | 1,368 | 9,298 |
Age at first use | ||||||||||||||||
12 years or under | 13.4 | 13.9 | 23.4 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 4.0 | 24.9 | 5.0 | 14.4 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 9.7 | 6.1 | 22.2 | 19.0 |
13 to 14 years | 16.3 | 16.2 | 24.1 | 6.6 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 7.2 | 30.8 | 11.3 | 15.2 | 7.4 | 7.8 | 17.8 | 14.1 | 27.3 | 10.2 |
15 to 16 years | 21.3 | 27.5 | 27.6 | 13.3 | 10.2 | 9.8 | 15.3 | 25.3 | 18.1 | 19.3 | 13.3 | 12.8 | 26.5 | 21.1 | 20.2 | 15.3 |
17 to 18 years | 16.4 | 22.5 | 14.3 | 17.7 | 12.7 | 13.3 | 18.8 | 11.4 | 17.4 | 14.3 | 10.8 | 11.7 | 18.2 | 22.6 | 9.6 | 11.7 |
19 to 20 years | 8.2 | 7.8 | 4.3 | 13.8 | 11.7 | 11.3 | 13.0 | 3.4 | 10.9 | 10.2 | 9.6 | 9.4 | 9.2 | 12.1 | 6.0 | 7.4 |
21 to 25 years | 11.5 | 8.3 | 4.2 | 20.5 | 20.5 | 23.0 | 20.8 | 2.9 | 16.7 | 10.3 | 15.3 | 15.7 | 9.9 | 14.7 | 4.8 | 12.7 |
26 to 30 years | 5.8 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 11.9 | 13.7 | 15.7 | 10.5 | 0.8 | 9.3 | 6.4 | 11.9 | 11.6 | 3.9 | 5.6 | 3.8 | 7.4 |
Over 30 years | 7.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 13.0 | 23.9 | 18.9 | 10.4 | 0.6 | 11.3 | 10.0 | 27.1 | 26.2 | 4.9 | 3.7 | 6.0 | 16.4 |
Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
No. of admissions | 1,583,637 | 370,734 | 299,937 | 223,801 | 63,553 | 168,544 | 64,530 | 263,144 | 103,073 | 862 | 7,608 | 3,956 | 1,833 | 2,063 | 996 | 9,003 |
- - Quantity is zero. | ||||||||||||||||
SOURCE: Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS). Data received through 10.3.06. |