The
NSDUH Report: Substance Use Treatment among Women of Childrearing
Age
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Highlights:
- Combined
data from SAMHSA's National Surveys on Drug Use & Health conducted
from 2004 to 2006 indicate that an annual average of 6.3 million women
(9.4%) aged 18 to 49 needed treatment for a substance use problem.
- Of
the women aged 18 to 49 who met criteria for needing substance use treatment
in the past year, 84.2% neither received it nor perceived the need for
substance use treatment. Only 5.5% of women in this age group had a
perceived unmet treatment need (i.e., did not receive substance use
treatment even though they thought they needed it).
- The
reasons for not receiving substance use treatment among the women with
an unmet treatment need were as follows: 36.1% were not ready to stop
using alcohol or illicit drugs, 34.4% could not cover their treatment
costs because of no or inadequate health insurance coverage, and 28.9%
did not seek substance use treatment because of social stigma.
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This Short
Report, The NSDUH Report: Substance
Use Treatment among Women of Childrearing Age,
is based on SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug
Use and Health conducted by the
Office of Applied
Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA). SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and
consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian
non institutionalized population, age 12 and older. SAMHSA's
National Survey on Drug Use & Health also provides estimates for drug
use by state.
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