The link below provides statistics relating to tobacco, alcohol and other drug use in Chesterfield County completed for SAFE's 2006 Youth Needs Assessment on Substance Use. This data is collected from a variety of sources, including law enforcement data, school disciplinary records, court service unit data, motor vehicle statistics and substance abuse treatment data. For statistics from the youth survey, please visit the youth survey page on this Web site.

Also listed are links to other sites that provide state and national statistics on alcohol/drug use.

Chesterfield County Statistical Information Relating to Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drug Use

Crime in Virginia
The Virginia State Police provides statewide and local statistics relating to alcohol and other drug violations as part of its annual Crime in Virginia report.

Monitoring the Future
The Monitoring the Future survey is the nation's longest running survey of tobacco, alcohol and other drug use of middle and high school students. Approximately 50,000 youth are surveyed each year. The survey was first given in 1975; the middle school component was added in 1981. The survey is administered by the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.

PRIDE (Parents Resource Information for Drug Education)
PRIDE surveys of 8th,10th, and 12th grade students' alcohol and drug use have been conducted since 1982.

National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse is an annual survey conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This survey has been the primary source of estimates of the prevalence and incidence of illicit drug, alcohol, and tobacco use in the general population since 1971. The survey is based on a nationally representative sample of the civilian, non institutionalized population of the United States--age 12 years and older.

SAMHSA expanded its National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) to provide information on substance abuse at the state level in August/September 2000. The expanded survey reports on 70,000 interviews each year, up from 18,000-25,000 in previous years.