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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...

The Mental Health Surveillance Study (MHSS) clinical follow-up was conducted as part of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) from 2008 to 2012 for the primary purpose of developing models that estimate the prevalence of serious mental illness (SMI) and any mental illness (AMI) in the adult...

As part of the Mental Health Surveillance Study (MHSS), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) conducted a clinical follow-up survey via telephone on a subsample of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) adult respondents from 2008 to 2012 to assess the prevalence of selected...

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 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 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...

The 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) instrumentation protocols underwent several modifications from the protocols employed for the 2012 NSDUH. A summary of the changes for the 2013 NSDUH can be divided into three topics: (1) the computer-assisted interviewing (CAI) screening instrument, (2) the CAI questionnaire, and...

This report focuses on the editing and statistical imputation procedures that were applied to respondent data for the 2013 NSDUH. Logical editing uses data from elsewhere within the same respondent's record to reduce the occurrence of missing or ambiguous data or to resolve inconsistencies between related variables. Imputation is defined...

This report contains a brief review of the sampling weight calibration methodology used for the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), which was known as the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) prior to 2002. This report also lists detailed documentation on the implementation steps and...

This report documents the method of weight calibration used for producing the final set of questionnaire dwelling unit (QDU) and pair weights for the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) data from 2013. The weighting team faced several challenges in this task and was able to address them...

The focus of this report is to describe the statistical inference procedures used to produce design-based estimates as presented in the 2013 detailed tables, the 2013 mental health detailed tables, the 2013 national findings report, and the 2013 mental health findings report. The
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This report compares the estimated (or realized) precisions of a key set of estimates with the targets for the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), formerly called the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). The comparison was made with targets specified by the Substance Abuse and...

This is a behavioral health report for HHS Region V of the United States and utilizes data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) and the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment (N-SSATS), collected annually. The topics addressed in the reports include youth mental health and treatment...