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[ 23 Nov 2012 | No Comment ]
Data Files and Alcohol

How to get more out of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health
By Art Hughes and Rachel Lipari
A recently released NSDUH Report on state-level underage alcohol use and self-purchase of alcohol showed that rates varied somewhat from state to state.
Information on other state-level substance use and mental health measures can be found here.
 Often the first question we get after the release of state-level results is “So why are we seeing differences between states?” or “Can NSDUH help me understand underage drinking in my state?”
These are good questions that can …

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[ 15 Nov 2012 | 4 Comments ]
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Written By: Doug Tipperman, Lead Public Health Advisor, SAMHSA 
A recent SAMHSA report indicates that adolescent cigarette use nationwide declined significantly over the past decade.  However, smoking remains the nation’s leading cause of preventable death, responsible for an estimated 443,000 American deaths each year, with 50,000 of these deaths from exposure to secondhand smoke.  One in eleven adolescents in the U.S. report smoking in the past month. In addition, tobacco use takes an enormous toll among people with mental and substance use disorders:

Almost half of tobacco deaths are people with mental and …

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[ 7 Sep 2012 | No Comment ]
Pamela S. Hyde, J.D., SAMHSA Administrator

Written By: Pamela Hyde, SAMHSA Administrator 
Every day nearly 100 Americans die by suicide, and even higher is the number of people who contemplate suicide.  A study released this year by SAMHSA found that 8.6 million American adults experienced serious thoughts of suicide within the past 12 months.  Among children ages 14-18, 2.9 million had serious thoughts of suicide.
Suicide is a public health issue that touches the lives of millions of people across the nation, and each of us has a role to play in preventing it in our own communities.
On …

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[ 16 Aug 2012 | No Comment ]
Digital Lock and Key Signifying Open Data

Cross Posted from HealthData.gov Blog: Steven Randazzo, HHS Innovation Team, Dept. of Health and Human Services
On August 9 – 10, 2012 the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) held its first ever Behavioral Health Data Users Conference and it was awesome!  Over two days, SAMHSA brought data owners and users together in one place to better explore the treasure trove of behavioral health data being produced by SAMHSA.
Unlike other conferences, the SAMHSA Behavioral Health Data Users Conference not only convened people to provide an overview of what type of data …

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[ 13 Aug 2012 | No Comment ]
Picture of budding plant to signify the website improvement Project Evolve

Written By: Andrew Wilson, Office of Communications, SAMHSA
The SAMHSA team supporting Project Evolve has been working hard over the past few months to make improvements to the website. Many of these improvements are still “behind-the-scenes,” but enhancements are underway to both the technical infrastructure underpinning the site and to how the information is organized and presented.
Last fall, the inaugural Project Evolve blog post invited readers to help us evaluate a new way to organize information on the website. Instead of structuring the site around SAMHSA’s organizational layout, we began moving …