The DASIS Report: Employment
Status and Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions, 2006
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Highlights
- Of
the substance abuse treatment admissions aged 18 to 64 reported to SAMHSA's
Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 31% in 2006 were employed full- or
part-time at the time of admission, 33% were unemployed, and 36% were
not in the labor force (i.e., not employed and not looking for
work).
- Full
time employed substance abuse treatment admissions were more likely
to report alcohol as their primary substance of abuse (58%) than substance
abuse treatment admissions who were homemakers (35%), unemployed (39%),
labor force dropouts (39%), or disabled (46%).
- Substance
abuse treatment admissions who were labor force dropouts were more than
twice as likely as admissions who were employed full time to report
daily use of their primary substance in the past month (56% vs. 26%).
- Substance
abuse treatment admissions who were homemakers (59%) or who were employed
full time (57%) were more likely to report entering treatment for the
first time than admissions who were unemployed (40%), labor force dropouts
(47%), or disabled (41%).
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This Short
Report, The
DASIS Report: Employment
Status and Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions, 2006,
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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