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. The survey cohort consists of U.S. civilian, noninstitutionalized population aged 12 years and older and includes residents in group quarters such as college dormitories, group homes, shelters, rooming houses, and military bases. Interviews are conducted in participants’ homes facilitated via the use of Computer Assisted Interviewing (CAI). 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).
Timeframe: 1979 - Present
Geographic Coverage: United States
Local Experts: Jodi Jacobson Frey

Subject of Study

Subject Domain

Population Age

Adult (19 years to 64 years)

Senior (65 years to 79 years)

Adolescent (13 years to 18 years)

Elderly (80 years and over)

Subject Gender

Female

Male

Keywords

Access via ICPSR
Data, Codebooks, and Questionnaires
Access Restrictions: Unrestricted access
Access Instructions: Freely accessible via the ICPSR site. 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.
Associated Publications: UMB-related articles using NSDUH data
Data Type: Interview

Survey
Study Type: Observational
Dataset Format(s): PDF, SAS, ASCII, SPSS, STATA, R

PubMed Search: View articles which use this dataset
Other Resources: NSDUH Website
Additional information on NSDUH and data in PDF format.

UMB Data Catalog

National Survey on Drug Use and Health