Numerator
Number of U.S. territories with a 5-percent or less illegal buy rate among minors in compliance checks
Methodology
As required by the Synar Amendment, all 50 States and the District of Columbia submit their baseline sales rates in compliance checks to SAMHSA as part of their annual Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) block grant applications. SAMHSA also tracks 8 territories that receive SAPT Block Grants.
U.S. territories eligible for inclusion are: American Samoa, Guam, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Republic of Palau, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.