Treatment Admissions Receiving Public Assistance: 2002

The DASIS Report:  Treatment Admissions Receiving Public Assistance: 2002

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Highlights:

• Of the 860,000 admissions in 2002 reported to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) with known income or support sources, 9% reported public assistance as the primary source of income, 31% reported wages/salary, 4% reported disability, 1% reported retirement/pension, 24% reported other sources of income and 31% reported none.

• Public assistance admissions to substance abuse treatment were more likely to report opiates (20% vs. 13%) and less likely to report marijuana as the primary substance of abuse than other admissions to substance abuse treatment.

• Public assistance admissions were more likely to be female (43% vs. 28%) than were other admissions to substance abuse treatment.

• Self or individual referrals were the most common referral source for public assistance admissions to substance abuse treatment.

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report:  Treatment Admissions Receiving Public Assistance: 2002, 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 SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). 

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.