The DASIS Report: Admissions
with Five or More Prior Treatment Episodes: 2002
Highlights
- Most
of the substance abuse treatment admissions in 2002 reported to SAMHSA's Treatment
Episode Data Set (TEDS) were either first-time admissions (44%) or had between
one and four previous treatment episodes (45%). The remaining 11% had five or
more previous treatment episodes.
- Substance
abuse treatment
admissions reporting 5 or more prior treatment episodes were more likely than
first time admissions to report opiates as their primary substance of abuse (36%
vs. 10%).
- Admissions
with 5 or more prior treatment episodes were more likely than first time admissions
to have been self or individually referred (52% vs. 27%) or to have been referred
by an alcohol or drug abuse provider (18% vs. 6%), and less likely to have been
referred by the criminal justice system (16% vs. 47%).
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This Short
Report, The
DASIS Report: Admissions
with Five or More Prior Treatment Episodes: 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 the Office
of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA).
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