The
OAS Report: Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide Attempts, Major
Depressive Episode & Substance Use among Adults
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Highlights:
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Data on suicide attempts and related behaviors are available from SAMHSA's
National Survey on Drug Use and Health and SAMHSA's Drug Abuse Warning
Network (DAWN).
- SAMHSA's
2004-2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health provides data on the
relationships between suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, and substance
use among adults aged 18 or older who had at least one major depressive
episode during the past year.
- SAMHSA's
2004 Drug Abuse Warning Network provides data about the types of drugs
and other characteristics of suicide related DAWN visits to emergency
departments.
- Among
adults who experienced a major depressive episode in the past year,
56.3% thought during their worst or most recent episode that it would
be better if they were dead, 40.3% thought about committing suicide,
14.5% made a suicide plan, and 10.4% made a suicide attempt.
- Adults
with a past year major depressive episode who reported past month binge
alcohol or illicit drug use were more likely to report suicidal thoughts
and suicide attempts than their counterparts with past year depression
who did not binge drink or use an illicit drug in the past month.
This
Short Report, The
OAS Report: Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide Attempts, Major Depressive
Episode & Substance Use among Adults, is based on SAMHSA's
National Survey on Drug Use and Health
and Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN),
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 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 by State. DAWN is a public health
surveillance system that measures some of the health consequences of drug
use by monitoring drug-related visits to hospital emergency departments
in the United States.
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