Homeless Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment: 2004

The DASIS Report:  Homeless Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment: 2004

• HTML format (also has the data table used to construct each figure)

• PDF format (recommended for printing)

Highlights

• According to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), more than 175,300 admissions to substance abuse treatment in 2004 were homeless at time of admission.  The admissions who were homeless comprised 13% of all admissions for which living arrangements were recorded; an increase from 10% TEDS admissions reported to be homeless in 2000. Almost half of the homeless admissions in substance abuse treatment (47%) were white.

• Alcohol was the primary substance of abuse for more than half of the substance abuse treatment admissions who were homeless (52%), followed by opiates (21%), and cocaine (17%).

• The largest difference in primary substance of abuse between homeless admissions and those who were not homeless was found among American Indians/ Alaska Natives. A greater proportion of American Indians/ Alaska Natives admissions who were homeless reported alcohol abuse than American Indians/ Alaska Natives who were not homeless (78% vs. 58%).

• Homeless admissions were more likely than substance abuse treatment admissions who were not homeless to refer themselves for treatment (48% vs. 33%) and were over twice as likely to have had five or more prior admissions to substance abuse treatment (21% vs. 9%).

Reports on homeless persons

Reports on American Indians/ Alaska Natives

Reports on treatment

Other topics

Other OAS publications and services

This page has been accessed 58598 times since July 21, 2006.

This page was last updated on July 21, 2006.

What's New