Monthly Archives: March 2008

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announces the availability of funds to expand/enhance grant activities funded under the State Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grants (DIG) for Quality Improvement. The purpose of this program supplement is to support mental health prevalence estimation and related associations in state populations.

Date Added: 03/07/08
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2008 for Prevention of Substance Abuse (SA) and HIV for At-Risk Racial/Ethnic Minority Subpopulations (Short Title: Minority SA/HIV Prevention Initiative) cooperative agreements.

Date Added: 03/06/08
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In 2006, 2 percent of adolescents aged 12 to 17 (an estimated 510,000 persons) used stimulants nonmedically in the past year, a rate twice as high as that observed among adults aged 26 or older. Across adolescent age groups, the rate of past-year nonmedical stimulant use in 2006 increased from 0.7 percent among youths aged 12 or 13 to 3.3 percent among those aged 16 or 17. Other research has found that stimulant misuse is associated with use of other illicit drugs, criminal justice involvement, and depression.

Date Added: 03/05/08
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2008 Targeted Capacity Expansion grants. This program is designed to address gaps in treatment capacity by supporting rapid and strategic responses to demands for substance abuse (including alcohol and drug) treatment services in communities with serious, emerging drug problems as well as communities with innovative solutions to unmet needs.

Date Added: 03/05/08
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Are you looking for the most up-to-date national substance abuse and mental health data? You will find it at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA)! The 2006 data for the following series are now available.

Date Added: 03/04/08
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In 2006, young adults aged 18 to 25 were more likely than youths aged 12 to 17 and adults aged 26 or older to be past year users of LSD, Ecstasy, and Salvia divinorum. Among youths, females were more likely than males to be past year users of Ecstasy, but males were more likely than females to be past year users of Salvia divinorum. Young adult males were more likely than young adult females to be past year users of LSD, Ecstasy, and Salvia divinorum.

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Date Added: 03/01/08
Inventory #: NSDUH08-0214
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Among past month cigarette smokers aged 12 or older, 57.7 percent met the criteria for past month nicotine dependence. Persons aged 12 or older who were dependent on nicotine in the past month were more likely than those who were not nicotine dependent to have engaged in alcohol use (61.7 vs. 49.1 percent), binge alcohol use (40.1 vs. 20.1 percent), and heavy alcohol use (14.9 vs. 5.5 percent) in the past month. Persons aged 18 or older who were nicotine dependent in the past month were more than twice as likely as their counterparts who were not dependent on nicotine to have experienced serious psychological distress in the past year (21.2 vs. 9.4 percent).

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Date Added: 03/01/08
Inventory #: NSDUH08-0124
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From 1995 to 2005, the percentage of substance abuse treatment admissions for primary abuse of methamphetamine /amphetamine more than doubled from 4% to 9%. In 2005, about 1.8 million substance abuse treatment admissions were reported to SAMHSA’s Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS). Of these, 169,500 were for primary methamphetamine /amphetamine abuse and 80,000 admissions were for secondary or tertiary methamphetamine/ amphetamine abuse. The duration of use of their primary drug before admission to treatment was, on average, six years less for persons admitted to treatment for primary methamphetamine /amphetamine abuse than it was for persons admitted for abuse of other primary substances. The criminal justice system was the principal source of referral for 49% of primary methamphetamine /amphetamine treatment admissions compared with 34% of admissions for other primary substances.

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Date Added: 03/01/08
Inventory #: DASISRPT08-0207
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