Admissions with 5 or More Prior Treatment Episodes: 2005

The DASIS Report:  Admissions with Five or More Prior Treatment Episodes: 2005

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• Most of the substance abuse treatment admissions in 2005 reported to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) were either first-time admissions (46%) or had between one and four previous treatment episodes (44%). The remaining 10% had five or more previous treatment episodes.

• Substance abuse treatment admissions reporting 5 or more prior treatment episodes were more likely than first time admissions to report opiates as their primary substance of abuse (37% vs. 11%).  First time substance abuse treatment admissions were more likely to report marijuana (22% vs. 5%) or stimulants (12% vs. 4%) than admissions with 5 or more prior substance abuse treatment episodes.

• Admissions with 5 or more prior treatment episodes were more likely than first time admissions to have been homeless (24% vs. 8%).

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report:  Admissions with Five or More Prior Treatment Episodes: 2005, is based on the Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS), the primary source of national data on substance abuse treatment.  DASIS is conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  

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SAMHSA, an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services, is the Federal Government's lead agency for improving the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment, and mental health services in the United States.