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Trends in Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions for Phencyclidine (PCP): 1993-2003

 

The DASIS Report:  Trends in Admissions for PCP: 1993-2003

 

Highlights:

  • Between 1993 and 2003, the number of admissions in SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) that reported phencyclidine (PCP) as the primary substance of abuse increased from 3,300 to 4,000; but the proportion of PCP admissions remained constant at about 0.2% of all substance abuse treatment admissions during this decade.
  • The regional distribution of primary PCP admissions shifted between 1993 and 2003. In 2003, about a third of all primary PCP admissions were in the West (down from 37% in 1993), 27% were in the Northeast (up from 23%), 23% were in the South (down from 33%) and 18% were in the Midwest (up from 7%).
  • In 1993, the most common secondary substance of abuse reported by primary PCP admissions was alcohol (41%), followed by cocaine (26%), and marijuana (24%). By 2003, marijuana (42%) was the most common secondary substance of abuse reported by primary PCP admissions, followed by alcohol (31%), and cocaine (15%).

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report:  Trends in Admissions for PCP: 1993-2003, 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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