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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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Treatment
Episode Data Set (TEDS):
1996-2006 National
Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment Services (PDF
format)
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.
2007
National Survey on Drug Use & Health (HTML) (PDF
format): provides the latest data on prevalence and correlates
of substance use, serious psychological distress, depression, related
problems, and treatment in the civilian population aged 12 or older
in the U.S.
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%).
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 depression 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.
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.
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%).
The
NSDUH Report: Serious Psychological Distress Among s
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 s aged
50 or older experienced serious psychological distress in the past
year. s 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%). s
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 s 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.
Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS):
2005 Discharges from Substance Abuse Treatment Services (HTML)
(PDF
format) Providing
data on treatment completion rates by type of substance abuse care
(inpatient, outpatient, hospital, methadone maintenance, etc.)
Underage
Alcohol Use: Findings from the 2002-2006 National Surveys on
Drug Use and Health (HTML) (PDF
format)
2004-2006
full subState report on State treatment planning areas (HTML) :
New SubState report
containing substance use prevalence, depression & serious psychological
stress measures by State treatment planning areas
(PDF format
recommended for printing)
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.
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.
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 s 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 s 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%).
State
Estimates of Substance Use from the 2005-2006 National Surveys
on Drug Use and Health (HTML) (PDF
format)
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