NCJ Number
191075
Date Published
September 2001
Length
242 pages
Annotation
This report presents State estimates of youth substance use from the 1999 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse.
Abstract
The report examines State estimates of the use of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana by youths 12- to 17-years-old and their perceptions and behaviors that may be related to that use. It also presents information about risk and protective factors. The national sample included approximately 25,000 youths. It covered residents of households, noninstitutional group quarters, and civilians living on military bases. It administered questionnaires to a representative sample of the population through face-to-face interviews at their place of residence. The State with the highest rate of past month use of alcohol among youths 12- to 17-years-old was North Dakota. The State with the lowest rate was Utah. Nationally, 17.3 percent of youths had used some form of tobacco in the month preceding the survey. The national average annual incidence rate for marijuana use among youths was 6.3 percent. The survey collected data on risk and protective factors in several content domains, including four constructs in the "peer/individual" domain: antisocial behavior, favorable attitudes toward substance use, peer attitudes favorable toward substance use, and peer substance use. Most persons who will ever initiate use of cigarettes, alcohol, or marijuana have already done so by the time they are 20- to 25-years-old. However, no sequence of use was predominant in that age group in 1999. Notes, figures, tables, exhibits, references, appendix