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Hispanics in Substance Abuse Treatment

The DASIS Report: Hispanics in Substance Abuse Treatment

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Alcohol, opiates, and marijuana were the most common primary substances of abuse among Hispanic admissions.

Hispanic admissions had a larger percentage of admissions for opiate abuse (32 percent) than non-Hispanic admissions (15 percent).

Hispanic admissions were 77 percent male and 23 percent female compared with 69 percent male and 31 percent female among non-Hispanics.

In 1999, among Hispanic admissions in SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 42 percent were Mexican, 35 percent were Puerto Rican, 2 percent were Cuban, and 21 percent were Other Hispanic.

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report: Hispanics in Substance Abuse Treatment, 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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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.

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