The NHSDA Report:
Binge Drinking Among Underage Persons
Highlights:
- A binge drinker is defined as a person who
drank five or more drinks on the same occasion on at least one day in
the past 30 days.
- In 2000, almost 7 million persons
aged 12 to 20 was a binge drinker; that is, about one in five persons
under the legal drinking age was a binge drinker.
- The rate of binge drinking among underage
persons (19 percent) was almost as high as among adults aged 21 or
older (21 percent).
- Underage persons who reported binge drinking
were 7 times more likely to report illicit drugs during the past month
than underage persons who did not binge drink.
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This Short Report, The NHSDA Report:
Binge Drinking Among Underage Persons, 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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