Percent of 18- to 25-year-olds reporting drug use during the past 30 days and the past year: 1979 to 1995

Table 373.

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         Drug          |1979 |1982 |1985 |1988 |1990 |1991 |1992 |1993 |1994 |1995
_______________________|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____
           1           |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  | 10  | 11
_______________________|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____
                       |            Percent reporting drug use during past 30 days
                       |___________________________________________________________
Any illicit use .......|38.0 |  ---|25.3 |17.9 |15.0 |15.4 |13.1 |13.6 |13.3 |14.2
  Marijuana ...........|35.6 |27.2 |21.7 |15.3 |12.7 |12.9 |10.9 |11.1 |12.1 |12.0
  Cocaine .............| 9.9 | 7.0 | 8.1 | 4.8 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 1.3
                       |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
Alcohol ...............|75.1 |66.6 |70.1 |64.7 |62.8 |63.1 |58.6 |58.7 |63.1 |61.3
Cigarettes ............|  ---|  ---|47.4 |45.6 |40.9 |41.7 |41.5 |37.9 |34.6 |35.3
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                       |            Percent reporting drug use during past year
                       |___________________________________________________________
Any illicit use .......|45.5 |  ---|37.4 |29.1 |26.1 |26.6 |24.1 |24.2 |24.6 |25.5
  Marijuana ...........|44.2 |37.4 |34.0 |26.1 |23.0 |22.9 |21.2 |21.4 |21.8 |21.8
  Cocaine .............|17.0 |15.9 |13.6 |10.5 | 6.5 | 6.7 | 5.5 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.3
                       |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
Alcohol ...............|84.6 |80.6 |84.2 |79.6 |78.1 |80.7 |75.6 |76.9 |78.5 |76.5
Cigarettes ............|  ---|  ---|49.9 |50.9 |45.1 |46.9 |46.8 |43.7 |41.1 |42.5
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---Data not available or low precision; no estimate reported.

NOTE.--Due to changes in the survey instrument and administration and to improve comparability with new data, estimates for 1979 through 1983 have been adjusted and may differ from those reported in previous years.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, "Preliminary Estimates from the 1995 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse," 1996. (This table was prepared April 1997.)

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