The
NSDUH Report: Substance Use Among Youths Who Had Run Away From Home
Highlights
- Based
on SAMHSA's 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately 1.6 million
youth (7%) aged 12 to 17 had run away from home and slept on the street in the
past 12 months.
- Among
youths aged 12 or 13, 6% had run away and among those aged 16 or 17, 10% had run
away from home in the past 12 months. Youths who had run away from home in the
past 12 months were more likely to have used alcohol, marijuana, or an illicit
drug other than marijuana in the past year than youths who had not run away.
- Alcohol
was used in the past year by 50% of the runaway youths aged 12 to 17 and 33% of
those who had not run away from home.
- Marijuana
was used in the past year by 23% of the runaways aged 12 to 18 and 12% of those
who had not run away from home.
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This Short Report, The
NSDUH Report: Substance Use Among Youths Who Had Run Away From Home,
is based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use
and Health, formerly called the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA)
conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in
the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (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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