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Virginia’s School Takes the Use of Any Kind of Substance Seriously
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 VIRGINIA
• In Virginia approximately 56,000 (9 percent) adolescents
used an illicit drug in the past month; 37,000 (6
percent) used marijuana, and 26,000 (4.3 percent) used an
illicit drug other than marijuana.
• In Virginia adolescent females were
significantly more likely than males to have used any illicit
drug in the past month (11.3 v. 6.7 percent).
• Rates of illicit drug use other than
marijuana in the past month were also significantly
higher for adolescent females than adolescent males (5.9 v.
2.7).
• In Virginia 17,000 adolescent males
and 27,000 adolescents females used pain relievers
nonmedically in the 12 months prior to the interview.
• Adolescents females in Virginia were more than three
times as likely as adolescents males to have experienced a
major depressive episode (MDE) in the past year (15.5 v. 4.9
percent).
TEEN ILLICIT SUBSTANCE USE IN VIRGINIA
Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug
in the United States. According to the combined 2003–2006
NSDUH:
• Approximately 56,000 (9 percent) of the 619,000 adolescents
in Virginia used an
illicit drug in the past month; 37,000 (6 percent)
used marijuana, and 26,000 (4.3 percent)
used an illicit drug other than marijuana.
• In Virginia adolescent females were significantly
more likely than males to have used any illicit drug in the
past month (11.3 v. 6.7 percent). Rates of illicit
drug use other than marijuana in the past month were
significantly higher for adolescent females
than adolescent males (5.9 v. 2.7 percent)
The misuse of pain relievers among youth is also a major public
health concern.
• In Virginia, 17,000 adolescent males and 27,000 adolescent
females used pain relievers nonmedically
in the 12 months prior to the interview.
• Adolescent females were significantly more likely
than males to have used pain relievers nonmedically in the
past year (8.9 v. 5.3 percent).
ADOLESCENT ALCOHOL USE AND ABUSE IN VIRGINIA
• 14.5 percent (90,000) of adolescents used alcohol
in the past month, and 8.4 percent (52,000) 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 Virginia adolescents were similar
between males and females; 14.7 percent of males and 14.3
percent of females currently used alcohol,
and 8 percent of males and 8.8 percent of females engaged
in binge drinking in the month prior to the interview.
ADOLESCENT
ALCOHOL AND ILLICIT DRUG DEPENDENCE OR ABUSE IN VIRGINIA
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 Virginia, rates of alcohol and drug dependence
or abuse were similar between males and females;
18,000 males and 27,000 females abused or were dependent
on alcohol or drugs in the past year.
ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT IN VIRGINIA
State treatment data for substance use disorders
are derived from two primary sources: (1) National Survey
of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS),6 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:
• Virginia showed a 1-day total of 22,847 clients in
addiction treatment, the majority of whom
(21,311 or 93.3 percent) were in outpatient treatment. Of
the total number of clients in treatment on this date, 2,879
(12.6 percent) were under the age of 18.
According to 2003–2006 TEDS data:
• Adolescent males accounted for 67.8 percent (11,998)
of the total adolescent substance abuse treatment
admissions.
• Of the total male admissions, 22.6 percent were drug
treatment admissions, 42.3 percent were alcohol
and drug treatment, 4.9 percent were alcohol treatment
and 30.2 percent did not report type of treatment.
• Of the total adolescent female admissions,
18.2 percent were drug treatment admissions,
35.6 percent were alcohol and drug treatment, 6.8 percent
were alcohol treatment and 39.5 percent did
not report type of treatment.
Among adolescent admissions, marijuana and alcohol
were the most prevalent substances of abuse.
• Of the total adolescent male admissions,47.2 percent
(5,667) reported marijuana use, and 62.5 percent (7,503) reported
alcohol use.
• Of the total adolescent female admissions, 48.7 percent
(2,768) reported marijuana use, and 42.4 percent (2,407) reported
alcohol use.
• Further, 6.0 percent of total admissions reported
cocaine use, 5.0 percent (594) of male admissions and 8.1
percent (460) of female admissions.
UNMET NEED FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT IN VIRGINIA
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 Virginia.
• 10,000 males (3.3 percent) and 15,000 females (5.1
percent) needed but did not receive treatment for drug problems.
• 15,000 females (4.8 percent) and 14,000 males (4.6
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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