Local Statistics

Community Statsbook, 2007 (expanded online version, 107 pgs.)

Community Statsbook, 2007 (print version, 77 pgs.)

Knox County Statsbook, 2001

2007 Knox County Youth Risk Behavior Survey (Tables and Summary) 

2005 Knox County Youth Risk Behavior Survey (Tables and Summary)

SUBSTANCE ABUSE RESEARCH INFORMATION

Monitoring the Future
http://monitoringthefuture.org/
An ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/
The YRBSS was developed in 1990 to monitor priority health risk behaviors that contribute markedly to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth and adults in the United States.

US Department of Health & Human Services SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies
http://www.drugabusestatistics.samhsa.gov/
Provides latest national data on 1) alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other drug abuse, 2) drug-related emergency department episodes and medical examiners cases and 3) nation's substance abuse treatment system.

SAMHSA's Latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Provides the latest data on prevalence and correlates of substance use, serious mental illness, related problems, and treatment in the civilian population aged 12 or older in the U.S. 
HTML Format (has additional navigation links); PDF Format (recommended for printing)

National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
Principal health statistics agency compiling information to guide actions and policies to improve health

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/
Crash statistics, impaired driving

Prescription for Danger
http://www.mediacampaign.org/newsroom/press08/rx_rpt_2008.pdf
A Report on the Troubling Trend of Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drug Abuse Among the Nation's Teens