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There has been a significant increase in hospitalizations for opioid misuse in recent years. Using 2010-2014 MarketScan commercial data, this report finds that 40 percent of patients do not receive any follow-up services within 30 days after an opioid-related hospitalization. Only 11 percent of patients received the recommended combination of...

This spotlight uses 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health to assess types of mental health services received in the past year among young adults aged 18 to 25.

This is a Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality (CBHSQ) short report examining lack of insurance rates among individuals with a behavioral health disorder in states that expanded Medicaid eligibility, did not expand Medicaid eligibility, and are undecided. It uses 2009-2013 data from the National Survey on Drug Use...

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...

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...

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...

This report compares estimates of suicidality (i.e., serious thoughts of suicide, suicide plans, suicide attempts, and receipt of medical care for a suicide attempt) generated from the 2008-2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) with estimates of similar measures acquired from other national data sources: National Comorbidity Survey...

This report uses 2002 to 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess trends in underage (12 to 20 year olds) past month alcohol use and binge alcohol use.

This spotlight provides results from the 2008 to 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health’s Mental Health Surveillance Study to review the percentages of past year anxiety disorder among adults aged 18 or older employed full time, employed part time, unemployed, and out of the labor force.

The Behavioral Health Equity Barometer, United States, 2014 provides a snapshot of substance use and mental health indicators by selected determinants of health: race and ethnicity, income level, geographic location, and health insurance status in the United States as measured through the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)...