Characteristics of Primary Alcohol Admissions by Age of First Use of Alcohol: 2002. The DASIS Report

摘要

Recent research has found an association between the age at which a person begins abusing alcohol and past year alcohol dependence and abuse. Alcohol was the most prevalent primary substance of abuse reported by 46 percent of admissions aged 21 or older in the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) in 2002. This issue of The DASIS Report will examine the 683,000 primary alcohol admissions aged 21 or older with a known age of first use of alcohol. TEDS defines age of first use differently for alcohol than for drugs. For alcohol, age of first use signifies age of first intoxication. For drugs, age of first use identifies the age at which the respective drug was first used.