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Parents Beware
as This New Drug “Charge” Does Not Show up on
Regular Drug Tests
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 MISSISSIPPI
• Approximately 21,000 (8.2 percent) of adolescents
in Mississippi used an illicit drug in the past month; 12,000
(4.5 percent) used marijuana, and 14,000 (5.3 percent) used
an illicit drug other than marijuana.
• 13.9 percent (36,000) of adolescents used alcohol
in the past month, and 7.9 percent (20,000) engaged in binge
drinking.
• 10,000 males and 9,000 females used pain relievers
nonmedically in the 12 months prior to the interview.
• 9,000 and 9,000 Mississippi adolescents needed but
did not receive treatment for past year drug problems and
alcohol problems, respectively.
• Adolescent females were more than three times as likely
as adolescent males to have experienced a major depressive
episode (MDE) in the past year (11.5 v. 3.2 percent).
TEEN ILLICIT SUBSTANCE USE IN MISSISSIPPI
Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug
in the United States. According to the combined 2003–2006
NSDUH:
• Approximately 21,000 (8.2 percent) of the 257,000
adolescents in Mississippi used an illicit
drug in the past month; 12,000 (4.5 percent) used marijuana,
and 14,000 (5.3 percent) used an illicit drug other than marijuana.
• There were no significant differences in illicit drug
use between adolescent males and females in Mississippi.
The misuse of pain relievers among youth in Mississippi
is also a major public health concern.
• In Mississippi, 10,000 adolescent males and 9,000
adolescent females used pain relievers nonmedically in the
12 months prior to the interview.
• There was no significant difference in rates of nonmedical
pain reliever use between females and males (7.1 v. 7.9 percent).
Adolescent Alcohol Use and Abuse in Mississippi
• 13.9 percent (36,000) of adolescents used alcohol
in the past month, and 7.9 percent (20,000) 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 Mississippi adolescents were similar between
males and females; 13.1 percent of males and 14.7 percent
of females currently used alcohol, and 9.5 percent of males
and 6.2 percent of females engaged in binge drinking in the
month prior to the interview.
ADOLESCENT ALCOHOL AND ILLICIT DRUG DEPENDENCE OR
ABUSE IN MISSISSIPPI
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 Mississippi, rates of alcohol and drug dependence
or abuse were similar between males and females; 9,000 males
and 8,000 females abused or were dependent on alcohol or drugs
in the past year.
ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT IN MISSISSIPPI
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:
• Mississippi showed a 1-day total of 5,912 clients in treatment,
the majority of whom (4,035 or 68.3 percent) were in outpatient
treatment. Of the total number of clients in treatment on
this date, 282 (4.8 percent) were under the age of 18.
According to 2003–2006 TEDS data:
• In Mississippi Adolescent males accounted for 63.6
percent (984) of the 1,546 total adolescent substance abuse
treatment admissions.
• Of the total male admissions, 53.9 percent were drug
treatment admissions, 30.1 percent were alcohol and drug treatment,
5.1 percent were alcohol treatment and 11.0 percent did not
report type of treatment.
• Of the total adolescent female admissions, 43.8 percent
were drug treatment, 33.8 percent were alcohol and drug treatment,
7.5 percent were alcohol treatment, and 14.9 percent did not
report type of treatment.
Among adolescent admissions in Mississippi, marijuana
and alcohol were the most prevalent substances of abuse.
• Of the total adolescent male admissions,
80.4 percent (791) reported marijuana use, and 35.2 percent
(346) reported alcohol use.
• Of the total adolescent female admissions, 70.1 percent
(394) percent reported marijuana use, and 41.3 percent (232)
reported alcohol use.
• Further, 6.1 percent (95) of the total adolescent
admissions reported methamphetamine use, 3.9 percent (38)
of male admissions and 10.1 percent (57) of female admissions.
Also, 12.9 percent (200) of all admissions reported cocaine
use, 9.5 percent (93) of male admissions and 19 (107) percent
of female admissions.
UNMET NEED FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT IN MISSISSIPPI
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,
• There were no significant differences in rates of
the unmet need for treatment between males and females.
• 9,000 Mississippi adolescents (5,000 males and 4,000
females) needed but did not receive treatment for past-year
drug problems.
• 4,000 females (3.4 percent) and 5,000 males (4.2 percent)
needed but did not receive treatment for alcohol problems.
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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.
TOLL FREE TEEN DRUG REHAB HELP LINE IN Mississippi:
1-888-757-6237
or e-mail
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