Data Sources

Question 1

National Survey on Drug Use and Health

Answer 1

measures the prevalence of drug and alcohol use among household members ages 12 and older

Question 2

What America’s Users Spend on Illegal Drugs

Answer 2

Estimates total U.S. expenditures on illicit drugs based on available drug price, purity, and demand data.

Question 3

Monitoring the Future

Answer 3

provides information on drug-use trends and changes in values, behaviors, and lifestyle orientations on American youth

Question 4

Youth Risk Behavior Survey

Answer 4

3 complementary components
national-school based survey
state and local school-based survey
special population surveys
all provides information about various subpopulations of adolescents in the U.S.

Question 5

Survey of Inmates in Federal Correctional Facilities and Survey of Inmates in State Correctional Facilities

Answer 5

Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice programs, Department of justice, conduct surveys providing background data inmates in federal prison and state correctional facilities

Question 6

Homelessness: Programs and the People they Serve

Answer 6

provides information about the providers of homeless assistance services and the characteristics of homeless clients who use these services

Question 7

Survey of Health Related Behaviors among Active Duty Military Personnel

Answer 7

surveys on health related behavior, including illicit drug use among active duty personnel

Question 8

The Economic Costs of Drug Abuse in the United States

Answer 8

cost of illness methodology and

Question 9

National Vital Statistics Data

Answer 9

data on drug induced deaths filed form the 50 states

Question 10

Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN)

Answer 10

provides data on drug-related emergency department episodes and medical examiner cases. Helps Federal, State, and local drug policymakers examine drug use patterns and trends and assess health hazards associated with drug abuse

Question 11

HIV/AIDS Surveillance Reports

Answer 11

contains information about U.S. AIDS and HIV case reports

Question 12

Reported Tuberculosis in the United States

Answer 12

contains information about tuberculosis cases collected from 59 reporting areas.

Question 13

Summary of Notifiable Diseases

Answer 13

publishes summary tables of the official stats for reported occurrence of nationally notifiable diseases in the U.S. including hepatitis

Question 14

Uniform Crime Reports

Answer 14

nationwide census of thousands of city, county, and state law enforcement agencies compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Question 15

National Prisoner Statistics Program

Answer 15

collects stats on prisoners at midyear and yearend

Question 16

The Monetary Value of Saving a High Risk Youth

Answer 16

estimates of the social costs associated with the typical career criminal, typical drug user, and the typical high school drop out and calculates the average monetary value of saving a high risk youth

Question 17

National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services

Answer 17

measures the location, scope, and characteristics of drug and alcoholism treatment facilities throughout the United States

Question 18

Treatment Episode Data Set

Answer 18

provides info on the demographic and substance abuse characteristics of annual admissions to treatment for abuse of alcohol, drugs, or both.

Question 19

Drug availability Estimates in the U.S.

Answer 19

measures the quantity of illicit substances available to drug users in the U.S., created by a request from the U.S. Attorney General

Question 20

The Price and Purity of Illicit Drugs

Answer 20

updates national level drug price and purity trends for the three major drugs, cocaine, meth, and heroin, marijuana is also reported for price only

Question 21

University of Mississippi Potency Monitoring Project

Answer 21

publishes concentrations of THC for various types of cannabis specimens

Question 22

Federal Wide Drug Seizure System

Answer 22

deconflicts overlapping info about drug seizures made by and with the participation of the FBI, DEA, and DHS

Question 23

Drug Enforcement Administration

Answer 23

provides resources to start and local law enforcement for cannabis eradication

Question 24

National Seizure System

Answer 24

data pertaining to clandestine meth labs seized in the U.S. by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies

Question 25

Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring

Answer 25

provides assessment of the drug problem among those arrested and charged with crimes

Question 26

The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs

Answer 26

combats drug abuse and illicit trafficking in drugs

Question 27

International Narcotics Control Strategy Report

Answer 27

provides the president with info on the steps taken during the previous year by the main illicit drug producing and transit countries to prevent drug production, trafficking, and related money laundering

Question 28

U.S. Government

Answer 28

estimates for each country cultivating significant amounts of illicit coca and poppy are presented in annual briefings by the U.S. government intelligence community

Question 29

Colombian National Police/ U.S. Department of State INL Air Wing

Answer 29

represent aerial eradication from 1999-2004 and are obtained from he U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics.