The
NHSDA Report:
Binge Drinking Among Underage Persons
Highlights:
- A
binge drinker is defined as a person who drank five or more drinks
on the same occasion on at least one day in the past 30 days.
- In
2000, almost 7 million persons aged 12 to 20 was a binge drinker;
that is, about one in five persons under the legal drinking age was
a binge drinker.
- The
rate of binge drinking among underage persons (19 percent) was almost
as high as among adults aged 21 or older (21 percent).
- Underage
persons who reported binge drinking were 7 times more likely to report
illicit drugs during the past month than underage persons who did
not binge drink.
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This Short
Report, The NHSDA Report:
Binge Drinking Among Underage
Persons, is based on SAMHSA's National
Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), now
called the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).
The survey is conducted by the Office of Applied
Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA). SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and
consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse and for selected mental
health measures in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population,
age 12 and older. SAMHSA's National
Survey on Drug Use & Health also provides estimates for drug use and for
selected mental health measures by State.
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