National Survey on Drug Abuse

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). 

In 1977, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) issued a National Survey on Drug Abuse based on a sampling of 4,594 people. The report estimated that about ten million Americans (6 percent of the population over the age of twelve) had by then used a strong psychedelic, mostly LSD, with somewhat over a million falling into the category of "regular users. ... 

National Survey on Drug Abuse DHEW Publ No (ADM) 78-618, US Government Printing Office, Washington DC 1977... 

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Miller, J.D. and Cisin, I.H. (1983). National Survey on Drug Abuse ... 

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Results from the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health National Findings (DHHS Publ No SMA 03-3836). Rockville, MD, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2003. Available at http //oas.samhsa.gov/nhsda/2k2nsduh/ Results/2k2Results.htm chap3. Accessed November 5, 2004. 

Source. From the results of the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 2003). 

Johnston LD, O Malley PM, Bachman JG, et al The National Survey Results on Drug Use from Monitoring the Future Smdy, 1975-1997. Rockville, MD, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1998... 

Stewart RD, Fisher TN, Hosko MJ, et al Experimental human exposure to methylene chloride. Arch Environ Health 25 342-348, 1972 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Preliminary Estimates from the 1995 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. Rockville, MD, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1996 Tenenbein M, PillayN Sensory evoked potentials in inhalant (volatile solvent) abuse. J Paediatr Child Health 29 206-208, 1993... 

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2003). 2001 national household survey on drug abuse (NHSDA), http //www.samhsa.gov/oas/nhsda/... 

Monitoring the Future 2002—Data from In-School Surveys on 8th, 10th and 12th Grade Students, Rockville, Md. National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan, December 2002. 

Prenatal exposure. Data collected from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, a nationally representative sample survey of 22,303 noninstitutionalized women aged... 

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. 

Another important survey conducted by the United States HHS is the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA). This survey is conducted in the homes of teens, rather than in school. Currently, the NHSDA survey is taken via a computer survey for drug-related questions. Though there are some inherent limitations in its methodology, as compared to the MTF survey and others not conducted in-home where teens might be timid to reply truthfully, NHSDA is considered to be a very reliable study and its results highly representative of actual drug use. The NHSDA was conducted periodically from 1971 and annually since 1990. 

National Institute on Drug Abuse. 2002 Monitoring The Future Survey Shows Decrease in Use of Marijuana, Club Drugs, Cigarettes, and Tobacco. Accessed at http //www.nida.nih.giv/Newsroom/02/NR12-16.html. 

National Institute on Drug Abuse. Annual Survey Finds Increasing Teen Use of Ecstasy, Steroids. NIDA NOTES 16 2001,2. 

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