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Arkansas
Teen Prescription Drug Abuse Facts
Information provided in this page is the data described in
the Adolescent Behavioral Health reports derive principally
from national surveys conducted by the Office of Applied Studies,
a component of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration. Sources for all data used in this report appear
at the end.
ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG USE BY TEENS IN ARKANSAS
• Approximately 31,000 (13.1 percent) of adolescents
in Arkansas used an illicit drug in the past month; 20,000
(8.6 percent) used marijuana, and 20,000 (8.5 percent) used
an illicit drug other than marijuana.
• 11,000 males and 16,000 females used pain relievers
nonmedically in the 12 months prior to the interview.
• Rates of past year illicit drug dependence were significantly
higher for adolescent females than for adolescent males (5.1
v. 2.5 percent).
• 18.3 percent of adolescents (43,000) used alcohol
in the past month and 12.9 percent (30,000) engaged in binge
drinking.
• 15,000 adolescents needed but did not receive treatment
for drug problems in the past year. In addition, 14,000 adolescents
needed but did not receive treatment for alcohol problems.
• Adolescent females were more than three times as likely
as adolescent males to have experienced an major depressive
episode (MDE) in the past year (12.7 v. 3.2 percent).
TEEN ILLICIT SUBSTANCE USE IN ARKANSAS
Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug
in the United States. According to the
combined 2003–2006 NSDUH:
• Approximately 31,000 (13.1 percent) of the 233,000
adolescents in Arkansas used an illicit drug in the past month;
20,000 (8.6 percent) used marijuana, and 20,000 (8.5 percent)
used an illicit drug other than marijuana.
• Arkansas adolescent males and females showed similar
patterns of past month marijuana use, but rates of illicit
drug use other than marijuana were significantly higher for
adolescent females than males (10.8 v. 6.3 percent).
The misuse of pain relievers among youth is also a
major public health concern.
• In Arkansas, 11,000 males and 16,000 females used
pain relievers nonmedically in the 12 months prior to the
interview.
• There was no significant difference in nonmedical
pain reliever use between females and males (13.9 v. 9.4 percent).
Adolescent Alcohol Use and Abuse in Arkansas
• 18.3 percent of adolescents (43,000) used alcohol
in the past month, and 12.9 percent (30,000) engaged in binge
drinking. Binge drinking is defined as 5 or more drinks on
the same occasion on at least 1 day of past 30 days.
• Rates of current alcohol use and past month binge
drinking among Arkansas adolescents were similar for males
and females; 17.5 percent of males and 19.2 percent of females
currently used alcohol, and 13.6 percent of males and 12.1
percent of females engaged in binge drinking in the month
prior to the interview
ADOLESCENT ALCOHOL AND ILLICIT DRUG DEPENDENCE OR
ABUSE IN ARKANSAS
According to the 2003–2006 NSDUH:
• Nationwide, nearly 1.5 million adolescents were dependent
on or abused alcohol in the past year and more than 1.2 million
adolescents were dependent or abused illicit drugs.
• Overall, the rates of past year abuse or dependence
on alcohol were significantly higher for females than males
(6.0 v. 5.4 percent), but rates of past-year abuse or dependence
on illicit drugs were similar between males and females.
• In Arkansas, the rates of past year illicit drug dependence
were significantly higher for adolescent females than for
adolescent males (5.1 v. 2.5 percent), but other rates of
substance dependence or abuse were similar between males and
females.
ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT IN ARKANSAS
State treatment data for substance use disorders are derived
from two primary sources: (1) National Survey of Substance
Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), an annual 1-day census
of clients in treatment and (2) the Treatment Episode Data
Set (TEDS), which provides information on annual treatment
admissions.
According to the 2006 N-SSATS survey:
• Arkansas showed a 1-day total of 3,624 clients in
treatment, the majority of whom (3,041 or 84 percent) were
in outpatient treatment. Of the total number of clients in
addiction treatment on this date, 74 (2 percent) were under
the age of 18.
According to 2003–2006 TEDS data:
• Adolescent males accounted for 72 percent (2,623)
of the 3,623 adolescent substance abuse treatment admissions.
• Of the total male admissions, 46.3 percent were others
only drug addiction treatment admissions,
49.6 percent were alcohol and drug treatment, and 3.2 percent
were alcohol only treatment.
• Of the adolescent female admissions, 53.3 percent
were drug addiction treatment, 42.6 percent were alcohol and
drug treatment, and 2.9 percent were alcohol treatment.
Among adolescent admissions in Arkansas, marijuana
and alcohol were the most prevalent substances of abuse.
• Of the total adolescent male admissions,
90.8 percent (2,382) reported marijuana use and 52.8 percent
(1,386) reported alcohol use.
• Of the total adolescent female admissions, 87.3 percent
(873) reported marijuana use and 45.5 percent (455) reported
alcohol use.
• Further, 8.3 percent (301) of total adolescent admissions
reported methamphetamine use, 161 (6.1 percent) of male admissions
and 140 (14 percent) of female admissions; 9.8 (355) percent
of total admissions reported cocaine use, 8.5 percent (224)
of male admissions and 13.1 percent (131) of female admissions.
UNMET NEED FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT IN ARKANSAS
NSDUH 2003–2006 estimates that more than 1.16 million
adolescents needed but did not receive treatment for illicit
drug problems and more than 1.3 million needed but did not
receive treatment for alcohol problems. NSDUH defines “unmet
treatment need” as an individual who meets the criteria
for abuse of or dependence on illicit drugs or alcohol according
to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
4th edition (DSM IV), but who has not received specialty treatment
for that problem in the past year.
In 2003–2006,
• Rates of unmet need for past-year alcohol problems and
rates of unmet need for past-year drug problems were similar
between adolescent males and females in Arkansas.
• 15,000 adolescents (6,000 males and 9,000 females) needed
but did not receive treatment for drug problems
in the past year.
• 6,000 females (4.8 percent) and 8,000 males (7 percent)
needed but did not receive treatment for alcohol problems.
Sources:
Facility Data: National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment
Services (N-SSATS)–2006 is available at: http://www.dasis.samhsa.gov.
Center for Mental Health Services Uniform Reporting System
Output Tables 2006 is available at: http://mentalhealth.samhsa.
gov/cmhs/MentalHealthStatistics/URS2006.asp
Substance Abuse Treatment Data: Treatment Episode Data Set–Concatenated
File–is available from the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Data Archive: http://www. icpsr.umich.edu/SDA/SAMHDA.
Mental Health Treatment Data: Center for Mental Health Services
Uniform Reporting System Output Tables 2006 is available at:
http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/ MentalHealthStatistics/URS2006.asp.
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