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This report uses NSDUH data from 2002 to 2007 on Prescription Pain Relievers. In 2007, 2.1 percent of persons aged 12 or older (an estimated 5.2 million persons) reported using prescription pain relievers nonmedically in the past month; this rate does not differ significantly from that in 2002.

This report presents an evaluation of the coverage, overlap, biases, strengths, and weaknesses of three sources of data on the receipt of specialty substance use treatment: the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), and the Treatment Episode Data Set...

This report describes the results of data collection efforts conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) related to the behavioral health (mental health and substance use) of residents of the Gulf Coast affected by the Deepwater Horizon...

This spotlight presents 2012 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) data on serious thoughts of suicide in the past year among adults aged 18 or older by whether the person with serious thoughts of suicide has also used illicit drugs in the past year.

This Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) spotlight is about emergency department visits involving nonmedical use of phamaceuticals by gender among older adolescents age 12 to 17 from year 2010.

This spotlight report describes the risks of combining the drug Ecstasy (also known as MDMA or methylenedioxymethamphetamine) with alcohol. For emergency department patients aged 20 and younger, it provides the number of emergency department visits that involved Ecstasy, and the percentage of Ecstasy-related visits that involved alcohol for the years...

This report uses 2002 to 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess past month binge alcohol use, marijuana use, and nonmedical use of prescription-type psychotherapeutics among adolescents aged 12 to 17 by whether they had been in therapeutic foster care or traditional foster care.

This CBHSQ data review uses 2002 through 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) data to examine recent trends in heroin initiation, including the role of nonmedical prescription pain reliever use in the heroin trend among persons aged 12 to 49. Data are presented for various age groups...