Comparing Drug Testing and Self-Report of Drug Use among Youths and Young Adults in the General Population

摘要

This report presents the results of a Validity Study conducted in 2000 and 2001 in conjunction with the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), an annual survey conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Office of Applied Studies (OAS), to track the prevalence of substance use in the United States. The purpose of the Validity Study was to provide information on the validity of self-reported drug use in a general population survey by comparing the self-reports of respondents with the results of drug tests of urine and hair specimens obtained from those same respondents. The study also was designed to investigate methodological issues, such as technical aspects of collecting urine and hair, the willingness of respondents to provide specimens, and questionnaire strategies.