Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2017 Mar 7;174:150–157. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.01.025

Table 2.

Cumulative opportunity to use, use, and use given opportunity from Year 2 (age 19) through Year 8 (age 25)

Opportunity Use Use Given Opportunity
n %wt n %wt n %
Marijuana 1081 84.8 875 61.5 872 80.7
Nonmedical Use of Prescription Stimulants 817 62.0 496 32.0 454 55.6
Hallucinogens 619 43.2 279 18.1 269 43.5
Cocaine 602 40.5 270 15.5 268 44.5
Nonmedical Use of Prescription Analgesics 579 40.1 368 23.6 304 52.5
Ecstasy 495 34.4 177 10.8 171 34.5
Nonmedical Use of Prescription Tranquilizers 393 26.0 245 14.6 226 57.7
Inhalants 238 15.5 117 7.2 104 43.7
Heroin 59 3.9 12 0.8 11 18.6

Note. Cumulative opportunity and use percentages are weighted (%wt) to account for sampling design. N’s are unweighted. Cumulative use given opportunity reflects the amount of participants who had the opportunity to use and used the same drug during at least one study year throughout all seven years of the study.