National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) (updated May 2021)
NSDUH is a comprehensive household interview survey of substance use, substance use disorders, mental health, and the receipt of treatment services for these disorders in the United States. The survey is collected face-to-face by field interviewers who read less sensitive questions to respondents and transition respondents to audio computer assisted self‑interviewing for sensitive items. NSDUH covers the civilian, noninstitutionalized population, aged 12 or older. It includes households, college dorms, homeless in shelters, civilians on military bases while it excludes active military, long-term hospital residents, prison populations, homeless not in shelters. Sample includes all 50 states and DC. Approximately 67,500 persons are interviewed annually. Data collected from January to December.
National results of the NSDUH survey are published annually, including detailed analytical tables. A limited set of indicators are published for each state biennially based on data from the most recent two-years. These indicators are avaliable for the age groups: 12+, 12-17, 18-25, 26+ and 18+. A similar set of indicators are published for sub-state areas biennially, but are based on the most recent three years. Substate areas in Louisiana include: Greater New Orleans (Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes), the Metropolitan Human Services District (Orleans, Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes) and Jefferson Parish.
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