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Employed Admissions for Substance Abuse Treatment: 2001

 

The DASIS Report:  Employed Admissions, 2001

Highlights

  • About 34% of the substance abuse treatment admissions reported to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) were employed full- or part-time at the time of admission.
  • Employed admissions were more likely to report alcohol as their primary substance of abuse than unemployed admissions (56% vs. 41%). 
  • Employed admissions were more frequently referred by the criminal justice system than unemployed admissions (48% vs. 26%).
  • Among criminal justice referals, employed admissions were three times more likely than unemployed admissions (16% vs. 5%) to have been referred as a result of arrests for "driving while intoxicated" (DWI)) or "driving under the influence" (DUI).

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report:  Employed Admissions, 2001, 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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