[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 104 (Wednesday, May 30, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24810-24811]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-11536]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Comment Request
Periodically, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) will publish a summary of information
collection requests under OMB review, in compliance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these
documents, call the SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer on (240) 276-1243.
Project: 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
(OMB No. 0930-0110)--Revision
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) is a survey of
the U.S. civilian, non-institutionalized population aged 12 years old
or older. The data are used to determine the prevalence of use of
tobacco products, alcohol, illicit substances, and illicit use of
prescription drugs. The results are used by SAMHSA, the Office of
National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), federal government agencies, and
other organizations and researchers to establish policy, to direct
program activities, and to better allocate resources.
While NSDUH must be updated periodically to reflect changing
substance use and mental health issues and to continue producing
current data, only the following minor changes are planned for the 2019
NSDUH: (1) Adding a brief series of questions on medication-assisted
treatment (MAT) for opioids and alcohol; and, (2) including other minor
wording changes to improve the flow of the interview, to increase
respondent comprehension, or to be consistent with text in other
questions.
The series of MAT questions seeks to identify medications
prescribed by health professionals to help reduce or stop the use of
opioids and alcohol. Including these questions in NSDUH will allow
SAMHSA to provide the first known national-level estimates on the use
of MAT for opioid use disorder and alcohol use disorder.
As with all NSDUH surveys conducted since 1999, including those
prior to 2002 when the NSDUH was referred to as the National Household
Survey on Drug Abuse, the sample size of the survey for 2019 will be
sufficient to permit prevalence estimates for each of the 50 states and
the District of Columbia. The total annual burden estimate is shown
below in Table 1:
Table 1--Annualized Estimated Burden for 2019 NSDUH
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Number of Responses per Total number Hours per Total burden
Instrument respondents respondent of responses response hours
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Household Screening............. 137,231 1 137,231 0.083 11,390
Interview....................... 67,507 1 67,507 1.000 67,507
Screening Verification.......... 4,116 1 4,116 0.067 276
Interview Verification.......... 10,126 1 10,126 0.067 678
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Total....................... 137,231 .............. 218,980 .............. 79,851
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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed
information collection should be sent by June 29, 2018 to the SAMHSA
Desk Officer at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB.
To ensure timely receipt of comments, and to avoid potential delays in
OMB's receipt and processing of mail sent through the U.S. Postal
Service, commenters are encouraged to submit their comments to OMB via
email to: [email protected]. Although commenters are
encouraged to send their comments via email, commenters may also fax
their comments to 202-395-7285. Commenters may also mail them to: OMB,
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, New Executive Office
Building, Room 10102, Washington, DC 20503.
Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2018-11536 Filed 5-29-18; 8:45 am]
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