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The NSDUH Report - -Adolescent Inhalant Use and Selected Respiratory Conditions
Highlights: Combined 2006 to 2008 data indicate that an estimated 1.0 million adolescents aged 12 to 17 (4.1 percent) used an inhalant in the past year. Nearly one tenth (9.8 percent) of adolescents had asthma in the past year, 3.2 percent had bronchitis, 0.9 percent had pneumonia, and 0.8 percent had sinusitis; at least one of these respiratory conditions was indicated by 13.5 percent of adolescents. Approximately 143,000 adolescents (0.6 percent) both used inhalants and had at least one of the four respiratory conditions in the past year. Nearly 1 in 20 adolescents with at least one of the four respiratory conditions in the past year (4.4 percent) also used an inhalant in the past year Other OAS publications and services This Short , The NSDUH Report - -Adolescent Inhalant Use and Selected Respiratory Conditions, is based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, conducted by SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health 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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