Non-Heroin Opiate Admissions: 2003

The DASIS Report:  Non-Heroin Opiate Admissions, 2003

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Highlights

• Opiates were the primary substance of abuse for 324,000 (18%) of the 1.8 million substance abuse treatment admissions reported to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) in 2003. Of these, 51,000 (3% of all admissions) were for a non-heroin opiate.

• Non-heroin opiates include methadone, codeine, Dilaudid, morphine, Demerol, opium, oxycodone, and any other drug with morphine-like effects. 

• Non-heroin opiate admissions (40%) were more likely than heroin admissions (22%) to be entering treatment for the first time.

• Non-heroin opiate admissions were less likely than heroin admissions to report cocaine as their secondary substance of abuse (17% vs. 50%) and more likely than heroin admissions to report marijuana as their secondary substance of abuse (19% vs. 10%).

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This OAS Short Report, The DASIS Report:  Non-Heroin Opiate Admissions, 2003, 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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