National Survey of Drug Use and Health

Alternate Titles(s): NSDUH
UID: 10037
Description
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provides national and state-level data on the use of tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs (including non-medical use of prescription drugs) and mental health in the United States. This annual survey involves interviews with approximately 70,000 randomly selected individuals aged 12 and older. NSDUH is sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency of the U.S. Public Health Service in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Publisher
Timeframe
1971 - Present
Geographic Coverage
United States
Subject Domain
Population Age
Child (2 years - 12 years)
Adolescent (13 years - 18 years)
Adult (19 years - 64 years)
Senior (65 years - 79 years)
Aged (80 years and over)
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Access

Restrictions
Free to All
Instructions
Datasets, codebooks, and questionnaires from 1979 to present are available on ICPSR. Data is available in SAS, SPSS, Stata, R, ASCII, and Excel. Data from each year of collection is deposited in ICPSR as a separate dataset.
Access via ICPSR

Data, Codebooks, and Questionnairs

Data Type
Dataset Format(s)
SAS, SPSS, Stata, R, ASCII
PubMed Search
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Other Resources
Survey Website

Additional information about NSDUH