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Inhalant Use Among Youths

Highlights:

• In 2000, more than 2 million youths aged 12 to 17 reported using inhalants at least once in their lifetime.



• Between 1999 and 2000, the rate of past year inhalant use declined among youths aged 12 or 13.



• Youths who reported an average grade of "D" or below were more than 3 times as likely to have used inhalants during the past
  year as youths with an average grade of "A."

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This Short Report, The NHSDA Report: Inhalant Use Among Youths, is based on SAMHSA's National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). SAMHSA's National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older. The NHSDA also provides estimates for drug use by state.

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