National Survey of Drug Use and Health

Alternate Titles(s): NSDUH
UID: 10037
Description
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provides national and state-level data on the use of tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs (including non-medical use of prescription drugs) and mental health in the United States. This annual survey involves interviews with approximately 70,000 randomly selected individuals aged 12 and older. NSDUH is sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an agency of the U.S. Public Health Service in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Publisher
Timeframe
1971 - Present
Geographic Coverage
United States
Local Expert
Subject of Study
Subject Domain
Population Age
Child (2 years - 12 years)
Adolescent (13 years - 18 years)
Adult (19 years - 64 years)
Senior (65 years - 79 years)
Aged (80 years and over)
Keywords

Access

Restrictions
Free to All
Instructions
Datasets, codebooks, and questionnaires from 1979 to the present can be downloaded from the NSDUH website and the ICPSR repository. Data is available in SAS, SPSS, Stata, R, ASCII, and Excel formats. The Public- and Restricted-use Data Analysis Systems (PDAS and RDAS) allow researchers to generate crosstabs (frequency data tables) online with survey data.
Access via NSDUH

Data and documentation

Access via PDAS

Public-use Data Analysis System

Access via RDAS

Restricted-use Data Analysis System

Access via ICPSR

Data and documentation

Associated Publications
Data Type
Study Type
Observational
Dataset Format(s)
SAS, SPSS, Stata, R, ASCII
PubMed Search
View articles which use this dataset
Other Resources
Survey Website

Additional information about NSDUH