National Survey on Drug Use and Health
A long-time leader in mental health and substance abuse research, RTI has been conducting research monitoring the nature, extent, and consequences of substance use and related mental health issues in the U.S. for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration—an agency of the U.S. Public Health Service—since 1988. The annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), formerly known as the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, is the primary source of national data on substance use, providing estimates on
- Tobacco use
- Alcohol use
- Illicit drug use
- Nonmedical use of prescription drugs
- Substance abuse treatment
- Mental illness
- Mental health treatment
Drug prevention, drug treatment, mental health, and substance abuse and mental health research communities—including government agencies—use NSDUH data to research substance abuse and mental health issues and to design and evaluate programs. Organizations that use the data include
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Partnership for a Drug-Free America
- Office of National Drug Control Policy
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of Transportation
RTI's role in this long-term national effort has been study design, questionnaire development and programming, sample selection and weighting, data collection, data processing, analysis, preparation of data files, and reporting. We use handheld and laptop computers and innovative bilingual, computer-based questionnaires to collect the data.
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