The
DASIS Report: Marital Status and Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions,
2005
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format (also has the
data table used to construct each figure)
Highlights:
- Based on SAMHSA's
2005 Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 52% of the substance abuse
treatment admissions aged 25 to 44 had never married, 28% were formerly
married, and 20% were currently married.
- Based on the 2000
Census for persons aged 25 to 44 in the nation as a whole, 25% had
never married, 14% were formerly married, and 61% were currently married.
- Substance abuse treatment
admissions who had never married (44%) were more likely than those
were formerly (39%) or currently married (36%) to report daily use
of their primary substance.
- Substance abuse treatment
admissions who had never married were more likely to have extensive
treatment histories and less likely to be entering substance abuse
treatment for the first time than other substance abuse treatment
admissions aged 25 to 44 in 2005.
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