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Texas
Teens and "Cheese" (Heroin) Drug Use and Abuse
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 TEXAS
• Approximately 184,000 (8.9 percent) of adolescents
in Texas used an illicit drug in the past month; 116,000 (5.6
percent) used marijuana, and 107,000 (5.2 percent) used an
illicit drug other than marijuana.
• Males were significantly more likely than adolescent
females to have used marijuana in the past month.
• Rates of alcohol dependence were significantly higher
for adolescent males than females; 23,000 males and 13,000
females were dependent on alcohol in the past year.
• In Texas 44,000 females (4.4 percent) and 55,000 males
(5.3 percent) needed but did not receive treatment for alcohol
problems, and 48,000 males (4.5 percent) and 41,000 females
(4 percent) needed but did not receive treatment for drug
problems.
• In Texas Adolescent females were more than two times
as likely as adolescent males to have experienced a major
depressive episode (MDE) in the past year (11.9 v. 4.9 percent).
TEEN ILLICIT SUBSTANCE USE IN TEXAS
Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug
in the United States. According to the combined 2003–2006
NSDUH:
• In Texas approximately 184,000 (8.9 percent) of the
2,061,000 adolescents in Texas used an illicit drug in the
past month; 116,000 (5.6 percent) used marijuana, and 107,000
(5.2 percent) used an illicit drug other than marijuana.
• There were no significant differences in illicit drug
use or illicit drug use other than marijuana between adolescent
males and females in Texas, but adolescent males in Texas
were significantly more likely than adolescent females to
have used marijuana in the past month.
The misuse of pain relievers among youth is also a
major public health concern.
• In Texas, 66,000 adolescent males and 71,000 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 (7.0 v. 6.3 percent).
Adolescent Alcohol Use and Abuse in Texas
• 16.4 percent of adolescents (338,000) used alcohol
in the past month, and 9.5 percent
(195,000) 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.
• Adolescent males in Texas were significantly more
likely than females to currently to have
engaged in binge drinking in the month prior to the interview
(11.2 v. 7.7 percent).
• Rates of current alcohol use were similar among Texas
adolescent males and females.
ADOLESCENT ALCOHOL AND ILLICIT DRUG DEPENDENCE OR
ABUSE IN TEXAS
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 Texas, rates of alcohol dependence were significantly
higher for adolescent males than
females; 23,000 males and 13,000 females were dependent on
alcohol in the past year.
• Rates of illicit drug abuse or dependence were similar
between Texas males and females;
50,000 males and 44,000 females abused or were dependent on
illicit drugs in the past year.
ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT IN TEXAS
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:
• Texas showed a 1-day total of 34,099 clients in treatment,
the majority of whom (28,311 or 83 percent) were in outpatient
treatment. Of the total number of clients in treatment on
this date, 3,536 (10.4 percent) were under the age of 18.
According to 2003–2006 TEDS data:
• In Texas adolescent males accounted for 76.5 percent
(17,966) of the total adolescent substance abusetreatment
admissions.
• Of the total male admissions, 58.6 percent were drug
treatment admissions, 38.7 percent were alcohol and drug treatment,
and 2.6 percent were alcohol treatment.
• Of the total adolescent female admissions, 59.1 percent
were drug treatment, 36.7 percent were alcohol and drug treatment,
and 4.2 percent were alcohol treatment.
Among adolescent admissions in Texas, marijuana and
alcohol were the most prevalent substances of abuse.
• Of the total adolescent male admissions, 41.4 percent
(7,430) reported alcohol use and
93.2 percent (16,736) reported marijuana use.
• Of the total adolescent female admissions, 82.8 percent
(4,564) reported marijuana use and 40.9 percent (2,252) reported
alcohol use.
• Further, 24.2 (5,670) percent of total admissions
reported cocaine use, 21.6 percent (3,881) of male admissions
and 32.5 percent (1,789) of female admissions. 4.9 percent
(1,147) of the total adolescent admissions reported methamphetamine
use, 3.6 percent (651) of male admissions and 9.6 percent
(496) of female admissions.
UNMET NEED FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT IN TEXAS
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 and drug problems
were similar between
adolescent males and females in Texas.
• 48,000 males (4.5 percent) and 41,000 females (4 percent)
needed but did not receive
treatment for drug problems.
• 44,000 females (4.4 percent) and 55,000 males (5.3 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.
TOLL FREE TEEN DRUG REHAB HELP LINE IN TEXAS:
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