The
DASIS Report: Adolescent Treatment Admissions: 1992 and
2002
Highlights
- All substance
abuse treatment admissions increased 23% between 1992 and 2002. The
number of adolescent treatment admissions, however,
increased 65% (from 95,000 admissions in 1992 to 156,000 in 2002) and
accounted for 8% of all admissions
reported to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set
(TEDS)
in 2002.
- Between
1992 and 2002, adolescent substance abuse treatment admissions reporting
marijuana as the primary substance increased from 23% to 64%; while
substance abuse treatment admissions reporting alcohol as the primary
substance decreased from 56% to 20% of all adolescent substance abuse
treatment admissions.
- In
2002, more than half (54%) of adolescent substance abuse admissions
were referred to substance abuse treatment through the criminal justice
system compared with 40% in 1992.
Reports
on Youth
Reports
on Drugs
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Topics
OAS
Publications and Services
This Short
Report, The
DASIS Report: Adolescent Treatment Admissions: 1992 and
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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