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Availability of Illicit Drugs Among Youths

 

The NSDUH Report:  Availability of Illicit Drugs Among Youths

Highlights:

  • In 2002, males and females aged 12 to 17 were equally likely (55%) to report that obtaining marijuana would be easy. However, female youths were more likely than males to report it would be easy to obtain crack (32% vs 21%), cocaine (29% vs. 21%), LSD (23% vs. 16%) and heroin (17% vs. 13%).
  • Males were more likely than females to report that they had been approached in the past month by someone selling drugs (20% vs. 13%).
  • About 29% of the youths who had been approached by someone selling drugs in the month before the survey had used marijuana in the past month compared with 4% of those not approached by a drug seller.

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This Short Report, The NSDUH Report:  Availability of Illicit Drugs Among Youths,  is based on SAMHSA's  National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), formerly called the  National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA).  The NSDUH/NHSDA is  conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's survey (NHSDA/NSDUH) is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older.   The NHSDA/NSDUH also provides estimates for drug use by state.

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