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Highlights of Recent Reports on Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Released in 2008
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reports by year of release: 2009 2008
2007
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2001 (reports are listed
from most recent to earliest release)
All
reports released in 2008
(listed from most recent to earliest release):
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The TEDS Report: TEDS
Report Definitions
SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) is a major national data
collection system from SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies that produces
an annual report of the demographic characteristics and substance abuse
problems of admissions to substance abuse treatment facilities. In
addition, trend data are provided for monitoring changing patterns in
substance abuse treatment admissions and discharges.
TEDS produces data on both admissions and discharges from substance
abuse treatment facilities that report to individual State
administrative data systems. In general, facilities reporting TEDS data
are those that receive State alcohol and/or drug agency funds (including
Federal Block Grant funds) for the provision of alcohol and/or drug
treatment services.
TEDS provides data on about 1.8 million admissions annually and has been
useful to people involved in substance abuse treatment resource
allocation and program planning.
This report provides the definitions for terms used in TEDS reports for
the following topics: substances of abuse, treatment service
characteristics, referral sources, prior substance abuse treatment,
client characteristics, geographic characteristics, and discharge
characteristics.
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The NSDUH Report: Trends in Substance Use, Dependence or Abuse, and
Treatment Among Adolescents: 2002 to 2007
Based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, adolescent
past month use of cigarettes, alcohol, and illicit drugs declined
between 2002 and 2007 but little change occurred between 2006 and 2007.
Between 2002 and 2007, past month use by youth of cigarettes declined
from 13.0% to 9.8%; alcohol from 17.6% to 15.9% and illicit drugs from
11.6% to 9.5%.
The decline in past month illicit drug use by youth can be attributed
primarily to a decline in marijuana use: 8.2% used marijuana in 2002
compared with 6.7% in 2007.
Past year alcohol dependence or abuse among youth remained relatively
stable between 2002 and 2007 but illicit drug dependence or abuse
declined from 5.6% to 4.3%.
Among adolescents who needed treatment, there were no statistically
significant changes in the percentage who received treatment for either
alcohol or drugs between 2002 and 2007.
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The NSDUH Report: Participation in Self-help Groups for Alcohol and
Illicit Drug Use, 2006 and 2007
Combined 2006 to 2007 data from SAMHSA's National Surveys on Drug Use
and Health indicate that an annual average of 5 million persons aged 12
or older (2%) attended a self-help group in the past year because of
their use of alcohol or illicit drugs.
Among persons aged 12 or older who attended self-help groups in the past
year, 45.3% attended a self-help group because of their alcohol use
only, 21.8% attended a self-help group because of their illicit drug use
only, and 33.0% attended a self-help group because of their use of both
alcohol and illicit drugs.
Among past year self-help group participants aged 12 or older, 45.1%
abstained from any alcohol or illicit drug use in the past month.
Almost one-third (32.7%) of persons aged 12 or older who attended a
self-help group for their alcohol or illicit drug use in the past year
also received special treatment for substance use in the past year.
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The NSDUH Report: Underage Alcohol Use: Where Do Young People Get
Alcohol?
Based on combined data from SAMHSA's 2006 to 2007 National Surveys on
Drug Use & Health, an annual average of 28.1% of underage drinkers (10.8
million persons aged 12 to 20) drank alcohol in the past month. By age
group within the underage drinkers the rates were: 51.1% of those aged
18 to 20; 25.9% of those age 15 to 17; and 6.1% of those aged 12 to 14.
Underage drinkers who drank in the past month (i.e., current drinkers)
obtained their last alcohol drink as follows: 30.6% paid for the last
alcoholic drink, 26.4% got it for free from a nonrelative of legal
drinking age, 14.6% got it for free from another underage person, 5.9%
got it from a parent or guardian, and 8.5% got it from another relative
who was of legal drinking age.
Current underage drinkers who paid for their last drink consumed more
drinks on average the last time they drank than those who did not pay
for their alcohol drink (6.0 drinks vs. 3.9 drinks).
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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.
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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: Alcohol Use among Pregnant Women and Recent
Mothers: 2002 to 2007 Data
from SAMHSA's National Surveys on Drug Use & Health conducted in 2002
through 2007 were used to compare alcohol drinking rates, frequency, and
quantity among women aged 15 to 44 divided into three groups: (1)
pregnant, (2) recent mother (i.e., had a child within the past 12
months), and (3) all other women in this age group. A stable pattern of
drinking was found for all three groups during 2002 to 2007.
Combined data from SAMHSA's 2006-2007 National Surveys on Drug Use &
Health examined drinking patterns among women aged 15 to 44. Pregnant
women (11.6%) were significantly less likely to have used alcohol
in the past month than recent mothers (42.1%) or all other women
(54.0%). Among current alcohol drinkers, both pregnant women and recent
mothers drank alcohol on fewer days than other women (4.9 days for
pregnant women, 4.4 days for recent mothers, and 6.1 days for all other
women). Pregnant and recent mothers also drank fewer drinks on their
drinking days (2.4 drinks for pregnant women, 2.5 drinks for recent
mothers, and 3.0 drinks for all other women).
Of concern is the fact that pregnant women aged 15 to 17
were more likely to drink alcohol in the past month than pregnant women
in other age groups and they were likely to consume over 3 drinks on the
days they drank.
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The NSDUH Report: Underage Alcohol Use: Where Do Young
People Drink?
SAMHSA's
2006 National Survey on Drug Use & Health indicated that more than a
fourth of the persons under the legal age for drinking actually drank in
the past month; that is, there were 10.8 million current underage
drinkers.
Over
a half (53.4%) of the current underage alcohol users drank at someone
else's home the last time they used alcohol and another 30.3% drank in
their own home.
Younger
female underage drinkers were more likely than older ones to have had
their most recent drink in a car or other vehicle. For example, female
underage drinkers aged 16 were eight times more likely to have had their
last drank in a car than those aged 20 (12.8% vs. 1.6%).
Among
current underage drinkers aged 20, females were almost twice as likely
as males to have had their most recent drink in a restaurant, bar, or
club (20.0% vs. 10.2%).
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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 DASIS Report: First-Time and Repeat Admissions Aged 18 to 25 to
Substance Abuse Treatment, 2006
Based
on SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) on substance abuse
treatment admissions in 2006, repeat admissions aged 18 to 25 were more
likely than first-time admissions of the same age group to report heroin
and other opiates as the primary substance of abuse (27% vs. 12%) and to
report the use of multiple substances (67% vs. 56%).
The South was unlike any other region in that a majority of all
admissions aged 18 to 25 were first-time admissions instead of repeat
admissions, regardless of the primary substance of abuse.
The
criminal justice system was the principal referral source to substance
abuse treatment for all admissions aged 18 to 25 whether first-time
substance abuse treatment admissions or repeat substance abuse treatment
admissions.
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The DASIS Report: Frequency of Use among Alcohol-Only Treatment
Admissions: 2006 Based
on substance abuse treatment admissions in 2006 reported to SAMHSA's
Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 49% of the alcohol-only treatment
admissions reporting daily use were referred to substance abuse
treatment by themselves, a family member or a friend.
Over
half (55%) of alcohol-only treatment admissions reporting less than
daily use were referred to treatment by the criminal justice system.
Alcohol-only
treatment admissions in 2006 reporting daily use were more likely
than those reporting less frequent use to be "not in the labor force"
(41% vs. 24%) and less likely to be employed full-time (20% vs.
41%).
Among
alcohol-only treatment admissions, those reporting daily alcohol use
were more likely than those reporting less frequent use to be homeless
(26% vs. 9%).
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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: Nonmedical Use of Pain Relievers in Substate
Regions: 2004 to 2006 Combined
data from SAMHSA's 2004-2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health
indicate that past year nonmedical use of pain relievers ranged from a
low of 2.48% in a ward of the District of Columbia to a high of 7.92% in
northwest Florida. Of
the 15 substate regions with the highest rates of nonmedical use of pain
relievers, 10 of the highest substate regions were in the South and 5
were in the West. Of
the 15 substate regions with the lowest rates of nonmedical use of pain
relievers, 7 of the lowest substate regions were in the South, 4 were in
the Midwest, 3 were in the Northeast, and 1 was in the West.
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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).
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The NSDUH Report: Parent Awareness of Youth Use of Cigarettes,
Alcohol, and Marijuana
SAMHSA's
National Survey on Drug Use and Health includes a sample of parents and
their children who live in the same household. These parent-child pairs
are composed of a child aged 12 to 17 and his or her biological, step,
adoptive, or foster parent. Based
on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, mothers were more
likely than fathers to be aware of their child's substance use in the
past year regardless of the household having only the mother or both
parents. Fathers
in two parent households were more likely than fathers in father-only
households to be aware of their child's substance use in the past year. The
older the child, the more likely that parents were aware of their
child's alcohol and cigarette use in the past year. Past
year substance use by youth was higher in one-parent households than
those with both parents. Within
one-parent households, substance use by youth was generally higher among
youth in father-child pairs than mother-child pairs.
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The NSDUH Report: State Estimates of Persons Aged 18 or Older
Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol or Illicit Drugs Based
on the combined 2004 to 2006 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health
data from current drivers aged 18 or older, 15.1% had driven under the
influence of alcohol during the past year and 4.7% had driven under the
influence of illicit drugs. States
with the highest rates of driving under the influence of alcohol
in the past year among adults aged 18 or older were Wisconsin (26.4%),
North Dakota (24.9%), Minnesota (23.5%), Nebraska (22.9%), and South
Dakota (21.6%). The
highest rates of driving under the influence of illicit drugs
in the past year among adults aged 18 or older were in the District of
Columbia (7.0%), Rhode Island (6.8%), Massachusetts (6.4%), Montana
(6.3%), and Wyoming (6.2%).
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The NSDUH Report: Quantity
and Frequency of Alcohol Use among Underage Drinkers Based
on combined data from SAMHSA's 2005 to 2006 National Surveys on Drug Use
& Health, an annual average of 28.3% of underage drinkers (10.8 million
persons aged 12 to 20) drank alcohol in the past month. Underage
drinkers who drank in the past month used alcohol an average of 5.9 days
in the past month and consumed an average of 4.9 alcoholic drinks per
day on the days they drank in the past month. Person
under the legal age consumed, on average, more drinks per days on the
days they drank in the past month than drinkers of legal age (4.9 drinks
vs. 2.8 drinks).
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The NSDUH Report: Substance Use and Dependence Following
Initiation of Alcohol or Illicit Drug Use Based
on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 3.2% of the persons
aged 12 or older who first used alcohol 13 to 24 months prior to the
survey interview were dependent on alcohol in the past 12 months. Of
those who first used marijuana in the 13 to 24 months prior to the
survey interview, 5.8% were dependent on marijuana in the past year. Among
new users of crack cocaine in the 13 to 24 months prior to the survey
interview, 9.2% were dependent on any type of cocaine in the past year;
and 13.4% of the new users of heroin in the 13 to 24 months prior to the
survey interview were dependent on heroin in the past year.
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The DASIS Report: Employment Status and Substance Abuse Treatment
Admissions, 2006 Of
the substance abuse treatment admissions aged 18 to 64 reported to
SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 31% in 2006 were employed
full- or part-time at the time of admission, 33% were unemployed, and
36% were not in the labor force (i.e., not employed and not
looking for work). Full
time employed substance abuse treatment admissions were more likely to
report alcohol as their primary substance of abuse (58%) than substance
abuse treatment admissions who were homemakers (35%), unemployed (39%),
labor force dropouts (39%), or disabled (46%). Substance
abuse treatment admissions who were labor force dropouts were more than
twice as likely as admissions who were employed full time to report
daily use of their primary substance in the past month (56% vs. 26%). Substance
abuse treatment admissions who were homemakers (59%) or who were
employed full time (57%) were more likely to report entering treatment
for the first time than admissions who were unemployed (40%), labor
force dropouts (47%), or disabled (41%).
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The DASIS Report: Adolescent Admissions Reporting Inhalants, 2006 Based
on SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), adolescents aged 12 to 17
accounted for 8% of admissions to substance abuse treatment in 2006;
however, they represent 48% of all admissions reporting inhalants. Females
comprised a larger proportion of adolescent admissions reporting
inhalants than of adolescent admissions not reporting inhalants (41% vs.
30%). In
2006, 45% of adolescent admissions reporting inhalants had a concurrent
psychiatric disorder in contrast to only 29% of their counterparts who
did not report inhalants.
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The NSDUH Report: Inhalant Use across the Adolescent Years Inhalants
were the most frequently reported class of illicit drugs use in the past
year among adolescents age 12 (3.4%) or age 13 (4.8%). Combined
data from SAMHSA's 2002 to 2006 National Surveys on Drug Use & Health
found an annual average of 593,000 youths aged 12 to 17 used an inhalant
for the first time in the 12 months prior to their survey interview.
Among past year new inhalant users aged 12 to 15, the three most
commonly used types of inhalants were: glue, shoe polish, or toluene;
spray paints; and gasoline or lighter fluid. In comparison, nitrous
oxide or "whippets" were the most common type of inhalant used among
past year new inhalant users aged 16 or 17.
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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: Use of Specific Hallucinogens: 2006
Specific questions on the following hallucinogens were first collected
in SAMHSA's 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: ketamine,
dimethyltryptamine (DMT), alpha-methyltryptamine (AMT),
5-methoxy-diisopropyltryptamine (5-MeO-DIPT or "Foxy"), and Salvia
divinorum. Based on SAMHSA's 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and
Health of persons aged 12 or older, 23 million had used LSD, 6.6 million
used PCP, 2.3 million used ketamine, 1.8 million used Salvia
divinorum and 0.7 million had used DMT, AMT, or Foxy at least once
in their lifetime. Among youth aged 12 to 17, females were more likely
than males to have used Ecstasy in the past year (1.4% vs. 1.0%). In
contrast, male youth aged 12 to 17 were more likely than female youth to
have used
Salvia divinorum in the past year (0.9% vs. 0.3%). In 2006,
young adults aged 18 to 25 were more likely to be past year users of
LSD, Ecstasy, and Salvia divinorum than youths aged 12 to 17 or
adults aged 26 or older.
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The DASIS Report: Primary Methamphetamine / Amphetamine Admissions to
Substance Abuse Treatment: 2005 From
1995 to 2005, the percentage of substance abuse treatment admissions for
primary abuse of methamphetamine /amphetamine more than doubled from 4%
to 9%. In 2005, about 1.8 million substance abuse treatment admissions
were reported to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS). Of these,
169,500 were for primary methamphetamine /amphetamine abuse and 80,000
admissions were for secondary or tertiary methamphetamine /amphetamine
abuse. The duration of use of their primary drug before admission to
treatment was, on average, six years less for persons admitted to
treatment for primary methamphetamine /amphetamine abuse than it was for
persons admitted for abuse of other primary substances. The criminal
justice system was the principal source of referral for 49% of primary
methamphetamine /amphetamine treatment admissions compared with 34% of
admissions for other primary substances.
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The NSDUH Report: Impact of
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Substance Use and Mental Health
Data are presented on substance use and mental
health problems before and after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita among
adults aged 18 or older who lived in the Gulf State Disaster Area and
for adults living in the rest of the United States. Estimates of
substance use and mental health problems before Hurricanes Katrina and
Rita were based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health
(NSDUH) from July 2004 through June 2005. Estimates for the post
hurricane period were based on NSDUH data from January 2006 through
December 2006. Based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health,
the impact
of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on substance use and mental health was
primarily found among persons who were displaced from their homes.
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The NSDUH Report: Nicotine Dependence: 2006
Based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, of the 61.6
million persons aged 12 or older who in 2006 smoked cigarettes in the
past month, 57.7% (35.5 million) met the criteria for nicotine
dependence in the past month. Persons aged 12 or older who were
dependent on nicotine in the past month were more likely than those who
were not nicotine dependent to have engaged in alcohol use (61.7% vs.
49.1%), binge alcohol use (40.1% vs. 20.1%), and heavy alcohol use
(14.9% vs. 5.5%) in the past month. Adults aged 18 or older who were
dependent on nicotine in the past month were more than twice as likely
as adults who were not nicotine dependent to have experienced serious
psychological distress in the past year (21.2% vs. 9.4%). Both youth and
adults who were dependent on nicotine in the past month were more than
twice as likely as those who were not nicotine dependent to have
experienced a major depressive episode in the past year.
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The DASIS Report: Geographic Differences in Substance Abuse
Treatment Admissions for Methamphetamine /Amphetamine and Marijuana:
2005
Among the six substances of abuse that
dominate substance abuse treatment admissions reported to SAMHSA's
Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), three (marijuana,
methamphetamine/amphetamines, and opiates other than heroin) increased
between 1995 and 2005 and three decreased (alcohol, cocaine, and
heroin). Generally, in both 1995 and 2005, the Pacific and Mountain
States had the highest rates for substance abuse treatment admissions
whose primary drug was methamphetamine/ amphetamines. The marijuana
treatment admission rate for the nation increased from 81 per 100,000
population aged 12 or older in 1995 to 118 per 100,000 in 2005. The full
report contains maps indicating the relative quintile for each State's
rate of substance abuse treatment admissions whose primary drug was
methamphetamine /amphetamines or marijuana.
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The NSDUH Report: Misuse of Over-the-Counter Cough and Cold
Medications among Persons Aged 12 to 25
Based
on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in 2006 about 3.1
million persons aged 12 to 25 (5.3%) had ever used an over-the-counter
(OTC) cough and cold medication to get high; that is, used it
nonmedically. Nearly 1 million persons aged 12 to 25 (1.7%) had used an
over-the-counter cough and cold medication to get high in the past year.
Young
adults aged 18 to 25 were more likely than youth aged 12 to 17 to have
used OTC cough and cold medications nonmedically in their lifetime (6.5%
vs. 3.7%) but were less likely to do so in the past year (1.6% vs.
1.9%).
Whites
aged 12 to 25 (2.1%) were more likely than Hispanics (1.4%) and Blacks
(0.6%) to have used an over-the-counter cough and cold medication in the
past year to get high.
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The NSDUH Report: Treatment for Past Year Depression among Adults
Based on
SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 67.4% of the adults who
had experienced at least one major depressive episode during the past
year had received treatment for depression in the past year. The
types of treatment received for depression in the past year by the
adults with past year depression were: 69.4% both talked to a
professional and received medication for their depression, 23.8% only
talked to a professional about their depression, and 6.7% only received
medication for their depression. Perceived helpfulness of their
treatment for depression depended upon which treatment they received.
Adults with depression in the past year who received medication as well
as talked to a professional were most likely to perceive their treatment
as extremely helpful or helped alot.
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