The DASIS Report: Length
of Stay for Outpatient Discharges Completing Treatment: 2004
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Highlights
- SAMHSA's
annual Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) provides data on the median
length of stay for substance abuse treatment patients who completed
outpatient treatment in the nation's specialty substance abuse treatment
facilities. "Outpatient"
care included not only regular outpatient visits but also intensive
outpatient treatment (defined as a minimum of 2 hours per day on 3 or
more days per week), detoxification, and day treatment with partial
hospitalization. Outpatient treatment episodes where methadone use was
planned were not included in this analysis of median length of stay
(LOS). Increased length of stay has been associated with improved treatment
outcomes.
- Length
of stay among those who completed outpatient substance abuse treatment
in 2004 varied by primary substance of abuse, race/ethnicity, completed
education, and source of referral.
- Treatment
completers who reported stimulants as their primary substance of abuse
had the longest median length of stay (137 days) compared with treatment
completers with alcohol as their primary substance who had the shorted
median length of stay (98 days).
- The
median length of stay among outpatient substance abuse treatment completers
was longest among Hispanics(126 days) and shortest among American Indians/Alaska
Natives (84 days).
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This Short
Report, The
DASIS Report: Length
of Stay for Outpatient Discharges Completing Treatment: 2004,
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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