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How Men and Women Enter Substance Abuse Treatment

The DASIS Report: How Men and Women Enter Substance Abuse Treatment

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Male treatment admissions outnumbered female admissions by 2.3 to 1.

Men were more likely than women to enter treatment through the criminal justice system.

When criminal justice admissions were excluded, the relative numbers of admissions for men and women were much closer.

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Reports on the criminal justice system and substance abuse

This Short Report, The DASIS Report: How Men and Women Enter 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 SAMHSA's 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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