The DASIS Report: Employed
Admissions, 2001
Highlights
- About
34% of the substance abuse treatment admissions reported to SAMHSA's
Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) were employed full- or part-time at
the time of admission.
- Employed
admissions were more likely to report alcohol as their primary substance
of abuse than unemployed admissions (56% vs. 41%).
- Employed
admissions were more frequently referred by the criminal justice system
than unemployed admissions (48% vs. 26%).
- Among
criminal justice referals, employed admissions were three times more
likely than unemployed admissions (16% vs. 5%) to have been referred
as a result of arrests for "driving while intoxicated" (DWI))
or "driving under the influence" (DUI).
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This Short
Report, The
DASIS Report: Employed
Admissions, 2001, 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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