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 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%).
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).
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.
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%).
State
Estimates of Substance Use from the 2005-2006 National Surveys
on Drug Use and Health (HTML) (PDF
format)
2006 Highlights: Treatment
Episode Data Set (TEDS)
Information
is provided on the demographic and substance abuse characteristics
of the 1.8 million annual admissions to treatment for abuse of alcohol
and drugs in facilities that report to their State administrative
systems.
