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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...

Results from the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Detailed Tables is a collection of tables presenting national estimates from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). These tables present information on drug, alcohol, and tobacco use, as well as drug and alcohol dependence and abuse...

This report summarizes methods and other supporting information that are relevant to estimates of substance use and mental health issues from the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an annual survey of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States aged 12 years old or older. Section...

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...

The purpose of this report is to describe the differences between the DSM-IV and DSM-5 diagnostic criteria that could affect national estimates of childhood serious emotional disturbance (SED). The report also provides a description of DSM-5 updates
that have been made (or are being made) to existing diagnostic instruments and...

This report discusses how the change from APA\'s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) version IV to version 5 will impact NSDUH questionnaire items and estimates, specifically substance use disorders (SUDs), any mental illness (AMI), and serious mental illness (SMI).

This report provides 2014 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUHs) estimates of perceptions of great risk of harm from substance use and perceptions of availability of substances among persons aged 18 to 22 by their full-time college student status. Additionally, the 2014 estimates for full-time college students are...

2015 Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) Uniform Reporting System (URS) Output Tables for Puerto Rico. The URS state reporting system is collected annually to support the Community Mental Health Services Block Grant program. State Mental Health Authorities report on National Outcome Measures (NOMS), evidence based practices, and utilization measures...

This report describes the analytic potential of merging NSDUH data with auxiliary data (Section 2), potential sources of auxiliary data (Section 3), considerations when merging NSDUH data with auxiliary data sources (Section 4), and statistical considerations when using merged data (Section 5). Section 6 summarizes how to access restricted-use NSDUH...

This report uses 2012 to 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess past month marijuana use and perceptions of great risk of harm from smoking marijuana once a month among people aged 12 or older in 362 substate regions, the 50 states, and the District of...

Tables of prevalence estimates for persons aged 12 to 17, 18 to 25, 26 or older, and aged 18 or older.

To meet the increasing needs of researchers at large, NSDUH public use files (PUFs) have been created using a statistical disclosure control technique called MASSC to protect confidentiality of the data. MASSC stands for Micro-Agglomeration, Substitution, Subsampling, and Calibration (Singh, 2002; Singh, Yu, & Dunteman, 2003; Singh, Yu, & Wilson...

This spotlight uses 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to examine mental health service use among young adults aged 18 to 25 with any mental illness.