National Survey on Drug Use and Health
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The National Survey on Drug Use and Health, often abbreviated NSDUH, is an annual nationwide survey on the use of legal and
Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality.[2] The survey interviews about 70,000 Americans aged 12 and older, through face-to-face interviews conducted where the respondent lives.[1] In 1988, RTI International started conducting the survey, and they have been contracted by SAMHSA to continue doing so through 2017.[2] It was originally called the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, but was renamed in 2002 to its current name.[1] The NSDUH, along with the Monitoring the Future, is one of the two main ways the National Institute on Drug Abuse measures drug use in the United States.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "About Population Data / NSDUH". SAMHSA. Retrieved 20 February 2016.[dead link]
- ^ a b "About the Survey". NSDUH website. Retrieved 20 February 2016.[dead link]
- ^ "Drug use". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
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