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Show Psychotherapeutic Drug Use Psychotherapeutic drug use is defined by the Utah Household Survey on Substance Abuse as nonmedical use of any prescription type stimulant, sedative, tranquilizer, or analgesic. It is a health risk to use prescription drugs outside a physician's care. In this survey, the percentage of Utahns reporting regular non-medical use of psychotherapeutic drugs generally remains higher than the nation-wide rate in most categories. However, it is difficult to compare the data because of inconsistencies. Table 82. Regular Non-medical Use of Psychotherapeutic Drugs (Age 12-17) * Over the Analgesics Sedatives Stimulants Tranquilizers Steroids Counter Year Utah U.S. Utah U.S. Utah U.S. Utah U.S. Utah U.S. Utah U.S. 1979 - 0.6 - 1.1 - 1.2 - 0.6 - - __ 1982 0.7 - 1.3 2.6 0.9 - - __ 1988 - 0.9 - 0.6 - 1.2 - 0.2 - __ 1991 - 1.1 - 0.5 0.2 0.3 - 0.0 __ 1992 1.5 0.8 0.4 0.4 1.7 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 6.1 1993 2.4 - 0.3 0.5 1.1 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.0 - 4.3 1994 ~ - 0.4 0.4 ~ 0.2 __ 1995 « 0.5 0.5 - 0.2 « - __ 1996 - 0.5 2.4 0.5 0.2 - - Table 83 . Regular Non-medical Use of Psychotherapeutic Drugs (Age 18-25) * Over the Analgesics Sedatives Stimulants Tranquilizers Steroids Counter Year Utah U.S. Utah U.S. Utah U.S. Utah U.S. Utah U.S. Utah U.S. 1979 2.1 1.0 0.4 2.8 5.8 3.5 2.1 2.2 __ __ 1982 - 1.0 ~ 2.5 5.0 « 1.8 __ __ 1983 4.2 0.9 ~ 5.5 1.1 - _. __ 1988 ~ 1.5 - 0.9 ~ 2.4 ~ 1.0 __ __ 1989 4.9 ~ 1.7 - 3.0 ~ 2.8 - „ __ 1991 ~ 1.5 ~ 0.7 ~ 0.8 ~ 0.6 0.1 __ 1992 2.2 1.2 1.4 0.6 1.4 0.7 0.0 0.6 0.0 5.5 1993 1.4 1.4 0.7 0.6 1.4 0.9 2.4 0.6 0.0 0.2 5.6 1994 2.7 - 0.0 0.1 0.8 0.5 0.5 0.4 ._ 3.4 1995 ~ - 2.1 - 1.7 -- 0.8 ~ Table 84. Regular Non-medical Use of Psychotherapeutic Druj ;s (Age 26+)* Over the Analgesics Sedatives Stimulants Tranquilizers Steroids Counter Year Utah U.S. Utah U.S. Utah U.S. Utah U.S. Utah U.S. Utah U.S. 1979 1.0 - 0.1 0.4 0.6 0.5 0.2 0.3 __ __ 1982 - - « 0.4 « 0.6 - 0.4 __ - 1983 1.8 ~ 0.1 ~ 0.6 - 0.7 « __ __ 1985 -. 0.9 - 0.6 - 0.7 1.0 __ - 1988 ~ 0.4 0.3 0.5 0.6 __ __ 1989 1.3 - 0.3 ~ 0.5 - 0.4 ~ __ „ 1990 - 0.6 - 0.1 0.3 0.2 „ __ 1991 - 0.5 - 0.3 0.2 - 0.5 __ __ 1992 1.7 0.7 0.8 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.6 0.4 0.3 3.6 1993 1.0 0.6 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.2 3.8 1994 0.9 - 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.2 0.3 0.5 __ 3.1 1995 - 0.1 « 0.4 ~ 0.3 - ~ „ ?Percentage of persons reporting regular drug use within the past 30 days. Table 82-84. Sources: Utah Division of Substance Abuse, Utah Household Survey on Substance Abuse. Executive Summary and Main Findings. Salt Lake City,. 1993, p.15,1994, and 1996. 120 |