. "3 Data Needs for Monitoring Drug Problems." Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2001.
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Informing America’s Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don’t Know Keeps Hurting Us
Frequency of Data Collection
Geographic Coverage
Prevalence Estimates
Purpose
Throughout the calendar year
National
Lifetime; past 12 months; past 30 days
To track use of illegal drugs and other addictive substances and to collect related information from among the general population.
Throughout the calendar year with longitudinal follow-up of 12th graders once every 2 years
National
Lifetime, past 12 months; past 30 days
To track use of illegal drugs and other addictive substances among students registered for school.
Quarterly: data are collected for a two-week period, four times a year
23 cities
None
To track the illegal drug use among arrests.
Throughout the year
National
None
To track emergency department cases and medical examiner deaths caused by the use of illegal drugs or the abuse of prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
