Dually Diagnosed Female Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions:  1999

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Highlights:

• Individuals with both mental and substance abuse disorders are said to be "dually diagnosed."  Other terms for this are "co-occurring disorders" and "comorbidity."

• Dually diagnosed female admissions were more likely to have alcohol as their primary substance of abuse and less likely to have opiates, or stimulants than non-dually diagnosed female admissions.

• Dually diagnosed female admissions were more likely to have had prior treatments than non-dually diagnosed female admissions (72 percent vs. 60 percent).

• Dually diagnosed female admissions were less likely to be in the labor force than non-dually diagnosed female admissions (39 percent vs. 48 percent).

• Dually diagnosed female admissions were less likely to have been referred by the criminal justice system than non-dually diagnosed female admissions (17 percent vs. 26 percent).  

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report:  Dually Diagnosed Female Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions:  1999,  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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