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Substance Abuse Statistics

  • In 2001, almost 17 million Americans aged 12 or older, abused or were dependent on either alcohol or illicit drugs.
  • The highest rate of abuse or dependence on alcohol or illicit drugs was among 21 year olds.
  • In 2001, over 8 million persons aged 12 or older reported using Ecstasy at least once in their lifetime.
  • The majority of past year Ecstasy users were young adults aged 18 to 25.
  • Past year Ecstasy users aged 12 to 25 were more likely to have used other types of illicit drugs in the past year than those who did not use Ecstasy in the past year.
  • Among young adults aged 18 to 25, males were more likely to have used Ecstasy during the past year than females.
  • From 1999 to 2001, an annual average of 338,000 persons aged 12 or older used a needle to inject cocaine, heroin, or stimulants during the past year.
  • Young adults aged 18 to 25 were more likely to have injected drugs in the past year compared with youths aged 12 to 17 or adults aged 26 or older.
  • The last time injection drug users used a needle for injecting drugs, 14 percent of them knew or suspected someone else had used the needle before them and 16 percent used a needle that someone used after them.
  • Youths aged 12 to 17 who reported violent behaviors in the past year reported higher rates of past year illicit drug or alcohol use compared with youths who did not report violent behaviors.
  • In 2001, almost 3 million youths aged 12 to 17 and almost 7 million young adults aged 18 to 25 had used prescription-type drugs nonmedically at least once in their lifetime.
  • Among persons aged 12 to 25, the rate of past year marijuana use was higher among those who had used prescription-type drugs nonmedically in the past year (63 percent) than those who did not (17 percent).
  • SAMHSA's National Household Survey on Drug Abuse found that the initiation of nonmedical prescription-type drug use occurs primarily among personas age 12 to 25 and that new use has been increasing since the mid-1980s especially for pain relievers.
  • In 2001, persons aged 12 or older who lived in metropolitan areas were more likely than those in non-metropolitan areas to abuse or be dependent on alcohol or illicit drugs during the past year.
  • Youths aged 12 to 17, living in non-metropolitan areas, were more likely than youths in metropolitan areas to abuse or be dependent on alcohol or illicit drugs during the past year.
  • Rates of past year abuse or dependence were similar among males in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas.
  • In 2001, there were an estimated 90,232 ED visits related to prescription painkiller abuse, a 117 percent increase since 1994.
  • Nationally, prescription painkillers were involved in 14 percent of all drug abuse-related ED visits in 2001.
  • In 2001, approximately one-third of the prescription painkillers reported to DAWN were not specified by name (32,196 mentions). Among the named prescription painkillers, hydrocodone led with 21,567 mentions, followed by oxycodone (18,409 mentions).
  • Oxycodone mentions increased 70 percent from 2000 to 2001, compared to the 186 percent surge in mentions from 1999 to 2000. However, mentions of most prescription painkillers did not increase from 2000 to 2001.
  • From 1994 to 2001, the only prescription painkiller abuse that declined was codeine.
  • Dependence was the most frequently mentioned motive for prescription painkiller abuse cases (38,941), followed by suicide (24,576), psychic effects (13,949), unknown motive (11,039), and other motives (1,727).
  • In 2001, the average age was 37 for patients who attended the ED because of prescription painkiller abuse.
  • In 2000, 2.4 million persons used marijuana for the first time.
  • In 1998 and 1999, more than a quarter of marijuana initiates were age 14 or younger. The average age was 17.
  • Almost 60 percent of recent marijuana initiates in 1998 and 1999 had used both cigarettes and alcohol prior to using marijuana.
  • Recent marijuana initiates who used marijuana for the first time before the age of 15 were more likely to have used marijuana before using cigarettes or alcohol than those who first used marijuana age at age 15 or older.

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