by the Civic Research Institute

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The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse has been conducted annually since 1975 by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan under a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The 1998 survey was based on a nationally representative sample of 25,500 respondents age 12 and older. . . . The survey covers an extensive range of behaviors, and allows researchers to produce national estimates of current and lifetime substance use among different segments of the population, and to analyze trends over time. The preliminary results from the 1998 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse are reported in the Summary of Findings from the 1998 National Household Survey on...