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Among males aged 18 and older in 2002 and 2003, SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health found an estimated 8% (2 million) of veterans and 14.6% (11.1 million) nonveterans were dependent on or abusing alcohol or illicit drugs. An estimated 4.6% (1.2 million) of veterans and 7% (5.3 million) nonveterans had a serious mental illness. An estimated 340,000 male veterans had co-occurring serious mental illness (SMI) and a substance use disorder in 2002 and 2003. Although not statistically significant, within each age group of males the veterans had higher rates of these co-occurring disorders than nonveterans: aged 18 to 25 (6.4% veterans vs. 4.5% nonveterans); aged 26 to 54 (2.5% veterans vs. 2% nonveterans); and aged 55 or older (0.6% veterans vs. 0.3% nonveterans). See The NSDUH Report: Male Veterans with Co-Occurring Serious Mental Illness and a Substance Use Disorder

Based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health, in 2003, about 2.4 million girls, aged 12 to 17 reported taking part in one or more serious fights at school or work during the past year. See The NSDUH Report: Female Youths and Delinquent Behaviors

National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2003: Data on Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities (HTML format) (PDF format)

Based on SAMHSA's 2003 National Survey on Drug Use & Health, males were more likely than females to be dependent on or abusing alcohol or an illicit drug except among the youth. See The NSDUH Report: Gender Differences in Substance Dependence and Abuse

In SAMHSA's 2003 National Survey on Drug Use & Health, persons reporting first use of alcohol before age 15 were more than 5 times as likely to report past year alcohol dependence or abuse than persons who first used alcohol at age 21 or older (16% vs. 3%). See The NSDUH Report: Alcohol Dependence or Abuse and Age at First Use

All substance abuse treatment admissions increased 23% between 1992 and 2002. The number of adolescent treatment admissions, however, increased 65% (from 95,000 admissions in 1992 to 156,000 in 2002) and accounted for 8% of all admissions reported to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) in 2002. See The DASIS Report: Adolescent Treatment Admissions: 1992 and 2002

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