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This report uses 2015 NSDUH data to explore the reasons for prescription drug misuse in the United States among adults aged 18 or older.

This report provides state and substate estimates of nonmedical use of prescription pain relievers among people aged 12 or older using combined 2012-2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health data. Estimates are provided for the nation as a whole and for each state and substate areas. Comparisons are made...

This report uses the combined 2007 to 2012 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUHs), the 2012 Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), and the 2012 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) to examine opioid use and treatment among women of childbearing age (aged 15 to 44).

This short report uses 2013 to 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess sources of misused prescription pain relievers in the United States overall, by demographic subgroups, and by three types of user: (1) recent initiates, (2) frequent users, and (3) occasional users.

This report presents findings from the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) with a focus on comparing estimates related to substance use and mental health for military family members (spouses and children) with general population estimates. The numbers of military family members included in the 2015 NSDUH...

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 data from the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) regarding the perceived harmfulness of using cigarettes,alcohol, and specific illicit drugs and the perceived availability of substances. Estimates are presented for specific age groups. Estimates of the perceived great risk of harm associated with the...

This report presents findings from the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) on the use and misuse of prescription psychotherapeutic drugs (i.e., pain relievers, tranquilizers, stimulants, and sedatives) in the past year for the population aged 12 or older in the United States. The report presents additional...

This short report uses 2011 to 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess substance initiation and substance use among part-time and full-time college students aged 18 to 22.

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 presents data from the 2002 through 2014 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUHs) for trends in people’s perceptions of great risk of harm associated with the use of cigarettes, alcohol, and specific illicit drugs and the perceived availability of substances. The data are presented for the...

This report is the third (in a series of four) regarding the First Release Reports for the 2014 NSDUH. This report presents data from the 2002 through 2014 NSDUHs for substance use treatment and mental health service use among people aged 12 or older. Results are presented for adolescents aged...

This report is the second report under the 2014 NSDUH National First Release Reports. This report presents findings from the 2014 NSDUH on the percentages and numbers of adults aged 18 years old or older in the United States who had serious thoughts of suicide, made a suicide plan, and...

This report describes changes in the 2014 and 2015 NSDUHs that were designed to increase the efficiency of data collection and processing and to improve the quality of the data collected. In 2014, changes were made in the sample sizes allocated to each state and to different age groups in...

This report uses combined 2002 to 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess the average number of full-time college students aged 18 to 22 using substances for the first time per day for the year as a whole and for each month of the year. Substances...