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Gender Differences among Black Treatment Admissions Aged 18 to 25

The TEDS Report - Gender Differences among Black Treatment Admissions Aged 18 to 25

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In 2007, among non-Hispanic Black substance abuse treatment admissions aged 18 to 25, males were more likely than females to report marijuana as the primary substance of abuse (62.8 vs. 49.5 percent); however, females were three times more likely than males to report smoked cocaine as the primary substance of abuse (12.6 vs. 4.2 percent). More than two thirds (69.5 percent) of young adult Black male admissions were referred to treatment by the criminal justice system, compared to only about one third (35.7 percent) of female admissions. More than half of all young adult admissions had not completed high school or obtained a GED (50.9 per-cent for males and 55.1 percent for females) and most were either unemployed (42.5 percent for males and 43.4 percent for females) or not in the labor force (30.1 percent for males and 38.4 percent for females).

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The TEDS Report - Gender Differences among Black Treatment Admissions Aged 18 to 25, is based on SAMHSA's Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) conducted by SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health 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.

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