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Facilities Offering Special Programs or Groups for Women: 2005

The DASIS Report: Facilities Offering Special Programs or Groups for Women

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Of the 13,317 treatment facilities that responded to SAMHSA's 2005 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 13% did not accept women as clients. Those substance abuse treatment facilities that did were more likely to be larger facilities. Of the 11,578 substance abuse treatment facilities that accepted women as clients, 41% provided special programs or groups for women: 24% for adult women only, 3% for pregnant or postpartum women only, and 14% for adult women and/or pregnant or postpartum women.

Facilities offering special programs or groups for women were more likely to provide a variety of additional treatment services than facilities that did not offer women programs or groups. Such additional services included relapse prevention groups (91% vs. 74%), aftercare counseling (84% vs. 78%), and family counseling (81% vs. 74%).

Facilities providing special programs or groups for women were also more likely to offer programs for other types of clients than facilities that did not provide women programs or services. Special programs or groups were offered for men (63% vs. 3%), adolescents (78% vs. 48%), persons with co-occurring disorders (56% vs. 31%), persons with HIV/AIDS (23% vs. 4%), and senior citizens (16% vs. 3%).

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report: Facilities Offering Special Programs or Groups for Women , 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.

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