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This short report uses data from the AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (HCUP-NEDS) to assess the prevalence of underage alcohol misuse–related emergency department (ED) visits. Changes in the trends of alcohol-only and drug and alcohol-combination ED visits by age, gender and time are examined.

This short report from the Drug Abuse Warning Network examines emergency department (ED) visits that involved a drug-related suicide attempt. It looks at the characteristics of the ED visits where the patient left against medical advice (before the ED visit was completed). It discusses how patients who left the ED...

This report uses 2014 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUHs) to estimate the of prevalence of mental health service use among adolescents aged 12 to 17, the setting for the services received (i.e., specialty, education, medical), and the reasons these adolescents receive mental health services were analyzed. Estimates...

This spotlight uses 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health to assess types of mental health services received in the past year among young adults aged 18 to 25.

Describes emergency department (ED) visits involving the nonmedical use of narcotic pain relievers (opioids) using data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN). The drugs most commonly combined with narcotic pain relievers in ED visits; trends for narcotic pain relievers (2005-2011); demographic characteristics of narcotic pain reliever-related visits in 2011...

This report looks at costs for substance use disorder treatment reported in the 2010 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. These data include costs for prescriptions for medications and behavioral treatment used to treat alcohol use disorders and opioid use disorders made in office visits to general and family practice physicians...

This short report uses data on drug-related emergency department (ED) visits from the Drug Abuse Warning Network to look at 2011 ED visits involving synthetic cannabinoids. It shows trends compared to 2010 by gender, age group, the age distribution of patients, the drugs most commonly combined with synthetic cannabinoids and...

This spotlight provides results from the 2008 to 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health’s Mental Health Surveillance Study to review the percentages of past year anxiety disorder among adults aged 18 or older employed full time, employed part time, unemployed, and out of the labor force.

This spotlight uses combined 2009 to 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health to assess reasons for not receiving mental health services among young adults aged 18 to 25 who felt they needed mental health services in the past year.

This short report uses 2002 to 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess heroin-related trends in the United States among those aged 12 or older. Topics covered include past year heroin use, dependence and abuse, receipt of substance use treatment for herion use, heroin initiation, perceived...

This chartbook uses combined 2008 to 2012 data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to present
nationally representative estimates of mental health service utilization among adults aged 18 or older within different racial/ethnic
groups in the United States. Data on racial/ethnic differences in mental health service...

This spotlight uses 2008 to 2010 National Surveys on Drug Use and Healthto examine the percentage of girls aged 12 to 17 who experienced a major depressive episode (MDE) in the past year and received treatment. for depression in the past year.

The 27 national maps presented here show the 2010-2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) estimates for 363 substate regions. Topics covered include past month substance use (e.g., illicit drugs, marijuana, cocaine, pain relievers, alcohol, tobacco), substance dependence, abuse, and treatment need, past year serious mental illness (SMI)...

This report presents maps of State estimates for measures of substance use and mental health based on the combined 2009 and 2010 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUHs). Topics covered include past month substance use (e.g., illicit drugs, marijuana, cocaine, pain relievers, alcohol, tobacco), substance dependence, abuse, and...

This spotlight presents any mental illness in the past year among adults aged 18 to 64 using 2008 to 2012 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUHs) by whether they are unemployed.