Illicit Drug Use Among Veterans (2000 and 2001) 

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Highlights:

• Almost 2 million veterans, or 6 percent of the population of veterans in the United States, reported using illicit drugs in the past year.

• Within all age categories, male veterans and nonveterans had similar rates of past year illicit drug use.

• Of the 256,000 veterans in need of treatment for illicit drug use in the past year, 20 percent had received treatment during the past year.

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This Short Report, The NHSDA Report:  Illicit Drug Use Among Veterans (2000 and 2001), is based on SAMHSA's  National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), now called the  National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).  The survey is conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse and for selected mental health measures in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older.   SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health also provides estimates for drug use and for selected mental health measures by State.

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