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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...

These instructions explain how to update the 2014 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Serious Mental Illness (SMI) and Serious Emotional Disturbances (SED) estimates. This includes obtaining the latest population data by state from the U.S. Census Bureau as well as the calculations and methodology necessary to create...

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...

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
statistical procedures and information found in this...

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...

The respondent universe for the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) was the civilian, noninstitutionalized population aged 12 years or older residing within the 50 States and the District of Columbia. Consistent with the NSDUH designs since 1991, the 2013 NSDUH universe included residents of noninstitutional group...

NSDUH is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency of the U.S. Public Health Service in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. SAMHSA contracted with RTI International
to conduct activities including sampling, counting and listing, screening, interviewing, data processing, and reporting. This...

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...

The Quick Statistics tables for each state or jurisdiction are based on data from the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), displaying data on substance abuse treatment admissions during 2013, by primary substance of abuse and selected characteristics.