Prevalence of Drug Use in the DC. Metropolitan Area Household Population: 1990.

摘要

In recent years, Americans have ranked drug abuse among the most important problems facing the Nation. Indeed, drug abuse presents major problems for law enforcement and the provision of prevention, intervention, and treatment services. This report presents major findings about the use of illicit drugs, alcohol, and tobacco among members of the household population aged 12 and older in the District of Columbia Metropolitan Statistical Area (DC MSA). Illicit drugs include illegal drugs such as marijuana and cocaine as well as prescription-type psychotherapeutic drugs that are used for nonmedical purposes. The DC MSA was oversampled as part of the 1990 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) to provide estimates of the prevalence of drug use in the DC metropolitan area. Estimates of drug use in metropolitan areas have not previously been available from the NHSDA because small sample sizes in those areas precluded the development of reliable estimates. This report was produced as part of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area Drug Study (DC*MADS) funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).