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The Economic Costs of Alcohol and Drug Abuse
in the United States - 1992

National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Table 6.11

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Alcohol and Drug Use in AFDC and Food Stamp Households


	AFDC	Food Stamps
Alcohol
Three or more binge-drinking episodes per month, (a binge is drinking five or more drinks in a row)	8.7	10.4
Marijuana
Past year	16.7	15.1
Past month	8.7	7.8
Weekly for past year	5.4	5.2
Daily or almost daily for past year	3.1	2.9
Cocaine
Past year	6.4	6.4
Past month	1.6	2.1
Weekly for past year	1.0	1.3
Psychotherapeutic drugs
Past year	7.2	6.9
Past month	2.9	2.5
Any illicit drug use
Past year	21.6	19.5
Past month	10.5	10.1

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1994a).

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