The
NSDUH Report: Patterns and Trends in Inhalant Use by Adolescent
Males and Females, 2002-2005
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Highlights:
- Combined
data from SAMHSA's 2002 to 2005 National Surveys on Drug Use & Health
found an annual average of 1.1 million (4.5%) youths aged 12 to 17 used
an inhalant in the 12 months prior to being surveyed. About
2.6% of all youth who had not used inhalants before were new users (that
is, had used an inhalant for the first time in the past year). The
annual average of new users was 600,000 youth (289,000 males and 311,000
females).
- The
types of inhalants most frequently mentioned as having been used in
the past year by new users were: glue, shoe polish, or toluene (30.5%),
gasoline or lighter fluid (25.3%), nitrous oxide or "whippets"
(23.9%), and spray paints (23.5%).
- Among
new inhalants users, females were more likely than males to have used:
glue, shoe polish, or toluene (34.9% vs. 25.8%); spray paints (26.1%
vs. 20.8%); aerosol sprays other than spray paints (23.0% vs. 16.4%);
correction fluid, degreaser, or cleaning fluid (23.4% vs. 13.6%); and
amyl nitrite, "poppers," locker room odorizers, or "rush"
(18.2% vs. 11.6%).
- New
male inhalant users were more likely than females to have used nitrous
oxide or "whippets" (29.0% vs. 19.3%). Between
2002 and 2005, use of nitrous oxide or whippets declined among new inhalant
users (from 31.6% to 21.3% in 2005). In contrast,
use of aerosol sprays other than spray paints doubled from 12.6% of
new inhalant using youth in 2002 to 25.4% of new inhalant using youth
in 2005.
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This Short
Report, The NSDUH Report: Patterns
and Trends in Inhalant Use by Adolescent Males and Females, 2002-2005
, is based on SAMHSA's National Survey
on Drug Use and Health 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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