U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Reduce the proportion of people who used heroin in the past year — SU‑16 Data Methodology and Measurement

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About the National Data

Data

Data Source:  National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), SAMHSA

Baseline: 0.33 percent of persons aged 12 years and over reported heroin use in the past 12 months in 2017

Target: 0.33 percent

Numerator
Number of persons aged 12 years and over reporting heroin use in the past 12 months.
Denominator
Number of persons aged 12 years and over.
Target-setting method
Maintain the baseline
Target-setting method justification
This method was used because the trend was moving away from the desired direction. Maintaining the baseline is the desired target because the trend was stable and the Healthy People 2030 Workgroup Subject Matter Experts did not expect a decline.

Methodology

Methodology notes

Past year initiates for a specific substance include those who used that substance (misused in the case of prescription psychotherapeutics) for the first time in the past year.