National Survey of Drug

The National Survey of Drug Use and Health and Subgroup Differences... 

Not "Heavy alcohol use is five Of more drinks per occasion on five or more days in the past 30 days. Data are based on the 2003 national survey of drug use conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. 

National surveys of drug use in the general population were conducted in 11 Member States during the 1 990s. These surveys provide useful data on substances such as cannabis, whose use is relatively common and not highly stigmatised, but are less reliable for more hidden patterns of use, such as heroin injection. 

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that 1.6% of persons over age 12 years reported using heroin at some time in their lives (Substance... 

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Overview of Findings from the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (DHHS Publ No SMA-04-3963). Rockville, MD, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2004... 

Mellinger GD, Balter MB Prevalence and patterns of use of psychotropic drugs results from a 1979 national survey of American adults, in Epidemiological Impact of Psychotropic Drugs Proceedings of International Seminar on Psychotropic Drugs. Edited by Tognomi G, Bellantuono C, Lader M. Amsterdam, North Holland, 1981, pp 117-... 

Degenhardt L, Lynskey MT, Hall W Cohort trends in the age of initiation of drug use in Australia. Aust N Z J Public Health 24 421 26, 2000 Degenhardt L, Hall W, Lynskey MT The relationship between cannabis use, depression and anxiety among Australian adults findings from the National Survey of Mental Health and Well-Being. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 36 219— 227, 2001... 

Grant BF Comorbidity between DSM-IV drug use disorders and major depression results of a national survey of adults. J Subst Abuse 7 481 97, 1995 Hall W, Babor TF Cannabis use and public health assessing the burden. Addiction 95 485 90, 2000... 

Srisurapanont M, Jarusuraisin N, Kittirattanapaiboon P Treatment for amphetamine dependence and abuse. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 4 CD003022, 2001 Srisurapanont M, Ali R, Marsden J, et al Psychotic symptoms in methamphetamine psychotic in-patients. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 6 347-352, 2003 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Overview of Findings From the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (DHHS Publ No SMA 03-3774). Rockville, MD, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2003... 

Consistent with the decline in use among youth in these indicators is the decline in self-reported PCP use among youth and young adults in the household population. The National Survey on Drug Abuse showed a significant decline between 1979 and 1982 in the percent of 12- to 17-year-olds and the percent of 18- to 25-year-olds reporting ever having used PCP, from 3.9 percent to 2.2 percent, and from 14.5 percent to 10.5 percent, respectively (Miller et al. 1983). 

National Institute of Drug Abuse (1990). National Household Survey of Drug Abuse, Main Findings. Pub. No. 91-1788, Washington, DC. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Alcohol and Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. 

SAMHSA (2007) 2006 National survey on drug use and health national findings. Oliice of Applied Studies, US Department of Health and Human Services, publication no. SMA 07-4293. RockvUle, MD... 

Source 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (U.S.) [The report itself acknowledges that these figures underrepresent the number of actual drug users. See Appendix A Description of the Survey."]... 

Recently, many health advocates have become concerned with a prescription drug called OxyContin. Manufactured by Purdue Pharma, OxyContin is the brand name for the drug oxycodone hydrochloride. Concern about this drug is a result of its increasing non-medical abuse. In 2003, for example, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that about 2.8 million people older than 12 years of age had used OxyContin at least once non-medically. The problem, perhaps, is that OxyContin is extremely good at doing its job—pain relief. OxyContin is a powerful prescription medication used by millions of people annually to treat severe pain. 

The extent of drug use in 2003 for different drugs is presented in Table 4.1. According to the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 11.2% of 12- to 17-year-olds reported current use of illicit drugs, 30.5% reported use at least once during their lifetime, and 21.8% reported use within the pastyear. ... 

Strang J Sheridan J (1997a). Heroin prescribing in the British System of the mid 1990s data from the 1995 national survey of community pharmacies in England and Wales. Drug and Alcohol Review, 16, 7-16... 

Strang J Sheridan J (1997b). Prescribing amphetamines to drug misusers data from the 1995 National Survey of Community Pharmacies in England Wales. Addiction, 92, 833-8... 

SAMHSA, State Estimates of Substance Use from the 2003-2004 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health, Rockville MD 2006. 

See, e.g., Anon., A National Survey of Oncologists Regarding the Food and Drug Administration (Washington, D.C. Competitive Enterprise Institute, 1995), 4 pp. 

Source Results from the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and health National Findings. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Sen/ices Administration, Office of Applied Studies. URL http //www.samhsa.gov/oas/nhsda/2k2nsduh/ 2k2SoFW.pdf, p. 44. 

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