Facilities providing methadone/LAAM treatment to clients with opiate addiction, SAMHSA,Office of Applied Studies

Facilities Providing Methadone/LAAM Treatment to Clients with Opiate Addiction, 2000

The DASIS Report: Facilities Providing Methadone/LAAM Treatment to Clients with Opiate Addiction

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Opioid agonist medications are used to treat addiction to opiates, primarily heroin. Methadone is the most commonly used opioid agonist medication. Some clients also receive levo-alpha-acetyl-methadol (LAAM)

Of the 13,428 facilities responding to the 2000 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services, 9 percent (1,215) reported that they dispensed methadone or LAAM.

Methadone facilities offered HIV testing, hepatitis testing, and testing for sexually transmitted diseases more than twice as frequently as non-methadone facilities.

The highest median number of clients was in methadone-only facilities owned by private non-profit organizations (N=252).

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report: Facilities Providing Methadone/LAAM Treatment to Clients with Opiate Addiction, is based on SAMHSA's 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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