Monday, February 14, 2005

State Data on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illegal Drug Use  Page at the SAMHSA/OAS web site that has links to a variety of resources. As noted in an email from SAMHSA, " SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies (OAS) has just released the following State report on the web, based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health (NSDUH). It provides State level data for substance use and serious mental illness and is filled with maps and tables. Data from the 2002 and 2003 NSDUH were pooled to get more stable estimates for each State and DC. Also below is the direct link for some State cocaine treatment data." See, especially, State Estimates of Substance Use From the 2002-2003 National Surveys on Drug Use & Health. "To find data on a specific topic," notes the email, "go to SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies' topics website at http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/topics.cfm. You can always get to the topics website by clicking on 'Topics' on the OAS banner at the top of most OAS web pages. You can also get data on specific drugs by clicking on 'Drugs' on the OAS banner. You can get to the treatment topics at the Topics page or by clicking on 'Treatment' on the footer of most OAS web pages."