Facilities Offering Outpatient Care for Substance Abuse

The DASIS Report:  Facilities Offering Outpatient Care

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• Based on SAMHSA's annual National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 82 percent of the nation's substance abuse treatment facilities offered outpatient care in 2000. 

• "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.

• One of 10 outpatient facilities reported  providing methadone or LAAM treatment.

• Almost one-quarter of facilities offering outpatient care offered treatment in Spanish.

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report:  Facilities Offering Outpatient Care, 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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SAMHSA, an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services, is the Federal Government's lead agency for improving the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment, and mental health services in the United States.

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