Methamphetamine.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies, presents Methamphetamine Use, which presents statistical data on the trends and geographic characteristics of methamphetamine use in the United States between 2002 and 2005. Information is drawn from the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The report highlights several facts: 1) methamphetamine use in the past year among the civilian, noninstitutionalized population aged 12 or older declined overall between 2002 and 2005; 2) combined data from 2002 to 2005 indicated that persons in the West (1.2 percent) were more likely to have used methamphetamine in the past year than persons in the Midwest, South, and Northeast-these findings were consistent for both females and males; and 3) the number of recent methamphetamine initiates (i.e., first-time users 12 months prior to the survey) remained relatively stable between 2002 and 2004 but decreased between 2004 and 2005. This report is available online at http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k7/meth/meth.pdf or by contacting the National Criminal Justice Reference Service at 800-851-3420 or http://www.ncjrs.gov.