The
DASIS Report: Primary Alcohol Admissions Aged 21 or Older: Alcohol
Only vs. Alcohol plus a Secondary Drug, 2005
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format (also has the data table used to construct each figure)
Highlights:
- About
374,000 adult admissions (aged 21 or older) to substance abuse treatment
reported to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) reported alcohol
as their only substance of abuse and 289,000 adult admissions reported
alcohol plus a secondary drug.
- Alcohol-only
adult admissions were more likely than adult admissions reporting
alcohol plus a secondary drug to have been referred to substance abuse
treatment by the criminal justice system (41% vs. 33%).
- Adult
admissions admitted for alcohol plus a secondary drug were more likely
than alcohol-only admissions to have a co-occurring psychological
problem (25% vs. 16%).
Reports
on alcohol
Other
drugs
Reports
on substance abuse treatment
Other
topics
This Short
Report, The DASIS
Report: Primary Alcohol Admissions Aged 21 or Older: Alcohol Only vs.
Alcohol plus a Secondary Drug, 2005,
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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