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The DASIS Report: Discharges
from Intensive Outpatient Treatment, 2000
Highlights
- In
2000, 18 States submitted discharge records for substance abuse treatment
admissions to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS). These States
were: California, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska,
New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming.
- In
SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) linked admission/ discharge records,
16 percent represented clients who received intensive outpatient substance abuse
treatment. Intensive outpatient treatment is defined as treatment that lasts at
least two or more hours per day for three or more days per week. It does not include
regular outpatient treatment or outpatient detoxification.
- The
completion rate for intensive outpatient treatment was higher (41%) than for all
outpatient treatment (34%).
- The
median length of stay for completed intensive outpatient treatment was shorter
than for all completed outpatient treatment episodes. The median for completed
intensive outpatient care was 49 days while for all completed outpatient episodes
it was 91 days.
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This Short Report,
The DASIS Report: Discharges
from Intensive Outpatient Treatment, 2000, 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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