The
DASIS Report: Adolescent Treatment Admissions by Gender, 2005
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has the data table used to construct each figure)
Highlights:
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Based
on SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), of the 142,600 adolescent
admissions aged 12 to 17 in 2005, about 31% (44,600) were female.
- Adolescent
female substance abuse treatment admissions were less likely than
adolescent male admissions to report marijuana as their primary substance
of abuse (51% vs. 72%) and more likely to report alcohol (23% vs.
16%) or stimulants (12% vs. 4%) as their primary substance of abuse.
- Adolescent
female substance abuse treatment admissions were more likely than
adolescent male substance abuse treatment admissions to have a co-occurring
psychiatric and substance abuse disorder (23% vs. 18%).
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OAS publications and services
This Short
Report, The DASIS Report: Adolescent
Treatment Admissions by Gender, 2005 ,
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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