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Adolescent Substance Abuse

• Adolescent admissions for substance abuse increased between 1994 and 1999. The increase was attributable to both increased admissions involving marijuana and increased referral to treatment through the criminal justice system.

• In 1999, alcohol accounted for nearly half (47 percent) of all TEDS admissions, down from 53 percent in 1994. However, 43 percent of primary alcohol admissions reported secondary drug abuse as well.
  
  
• Alcohol admission rates generally were highest in the Pacific Northwest, North Central, and Northeast. The rate for the United States as a whole declined by 19 percent between 1994 and 1999, from 418 per 100,000 aged 12 and over to 337. This rate of decline was equaled or exceeded in 16 States.