NOTICE:  The data archive system has recently reorganized its files.  The new locations have been added to all HTML reports.  For PDF reports, the web location for ADSS has been changed to http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/SAMHDA-DISPLAY/03088.xml 

 Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS)

What's New in ADSS Reports

ADSS Overview/ Three Phases

ADSS Reports

• Methodology

• Analytic Reports

Note to Users

ADSS Public Use Data Files

ADSS Questionnaires & Codebooks

ADSS Bibliography

 

ADSS Overview

The Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS)  is a nationally representative survey of substance abuse treatment facilities and clients. The data were collected to estimate the client length of stay and the costs of treatment as well as to describe the post-treatment status of clients.  ADSS builds upon the 1990 Drug Services Research Survey (DSRS) and the Services Research Outcome Study (SROS) with a more complete sampling frame, an enhanced sampling design, and more detailed measures of the level of treatment services provided, the costs of treatment, and clients in treatment.

ADSS consists of three phases: 

Phase I:

• a facility-based telephone interview with a representative sample of about 2,400 substance abuse treatment facilities

Phase II:

• an on-site facility survey with a subsample of 280 treatment facilities; and 

• a record-based survey of clients where client-level information was abstracted for a sample of over 5,000 client records and a comparison group. 

Phase III:  

• follow-up personal interviews with the Phase II sample of clients and a comparison group to determine post-treatment status in terms of substance use, economic status, criminal justice status, and further substance abuse treatment episodes. Urine testing was conducted to validate self-report of drug use

What's New in ADSS

• Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS) Phase II:  Client Record Abstract Report (PDF format, 356 KB)

• The DASIS Report: Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS) Cost Study

• The National Treatment System: Outpatient Methadone Facilities (Alcohol and Drug Services Study [ADSS])

• (The ADSS Organization Study)  The National Substance Abuse Treatment System:   Facilities, Clients, Services, and Staffing (PDF 1 MB)

• ADSS Methodology Report:  Phases I, II, and III  (PDF, 978 KB)

• The ADSS Cost Study:  Costs of Substance Abuse Treatment in the Specialty Sector (PDF, 731 KB)

Note to Users

Note to Users:

Great care has been taken by staff of SAMHSA’s Office of Applied Studies (OAS) and its contractors to create ADSS public-use data sets that are as complete as possible and consistent with the statutory requirements to maintain and safeguard the confidentiality of individual and institutional records. These requirements have been balanced against the important need to make the ADSS data files available in a timely fashion and to facilitate electronic download and analysis by users.  

Accompanying these files is documentation that has been compiled into a series of ADSS reports.  Several of these ADSS reports are being released as working documents to minimize delay.  Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the working documents but errors may still remain.  We request that you bring any errors to the attention of OAS staff.  

NOTICE:  The data archive system has recently reorganized its files.  The new locations have been added to all HTML reports.  For PDF reports, the web location for ADSS has been changed to http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/SAMHDA-DISPLAY/03088.xml 

ADSS Methodology Reports

For PDF formats, click here to download Acrobat Adobe Reader and follow the instructions for the free reader.  When printing, be sure to specify whether you want to print the current page, a selected range of pages, or all of the document.  If you do not indicate differently, you will get all the pages in the file printed.  Your Zoom In tool (a magnifying glass with a plus sign inside) can be used to enlarge the print size any time you want.

NOTICE:  The data archive system has recently reorganized its files.  The new locations have been added to all HTML reports.  For PDF reports, the web location for ADSS has been changed to http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/SAMHDA-DISPLAY/03088.xml 

ADSS Sample Design and Methodology Reports:

• Sample Design, Selection and Estimation for Phase I of ADSS (PDF format, 1.2MB)

• Sample Design and Weighting Report for Phase II and Phase III of ADSS (PDF format, 1.6MB)

• Methodology Report:  Phases I, II, and III  (PDF, 978 KB)

ADSS Analytic Reports

ADSS Analytic Reports:  The emphasis is to provide facility and client data for analysis by the substance abuse field.  See  ADSS Public Use Data Files.   Available reports provide background information.  Some of these reports are working documents to provide this documentation quickly to the field.  For PDF formats, click here to download Acrobat Adobe Reader and follow the instructions for the free reader.  When printing, be sure to specify whether you want to print the current page, a selected range of pages, or the entire document.  If you do not indicate differently, you will get all the pages in the file printed.  Your Zoom In tool (a magnifying glass with a plus sign inside) can be used to enlarge the print size any time you want.

• Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS) Phase II:  Client Record Abstract Report (PDF format, 356 KB)

• The DASIS Report: Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS) Cost Study

• The National Treatment System: Outpatient Methadone Facilities (Alcohol and Drug Services Study [ADSS])

• (The ADSS Organization Study)  The National Substance Abuse Treatment System:   Facilities, Clients, Services, and Staffing

• The ADSS Cost Study:  Costs of Substance Abuse Treatment in the Specialty Sector (PDF, 731 KB)

ADSS Public Use Data Files

ADSS Public Use Data Files When you click here, you leave the SAMHSA site website to go to SAMHSA's Substance Abuse & Mental Health Data Archive.

NOTICE:  The data archive system has recently reorganized its files.  The new locations have been added to all HTML reports.  For PDF reports, the web location for ADSS has been changed to http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/SAMHDA-DISPLAY/03088.xml 

ADSS Questionnaires & Codebooks

 

Questionnaires:

• Phase I facility questionnaire (PDF format)
• Phase II administrator interview questionnaire (PDF format)
• Phase II client record abstract (PDF format)
• Phase III client followup survey questionnaire (PDF format)

Codebooks:

• Phase I facility survey codebook (PDF format)
• Phase II administrator interview codebook (PDF format)
• Phase II client record abstract codebook (PDF format)
• Phase III client followup survey codebook (PDF format)

Bibliography of studies using  ADSS data:    Users are requested to send us the reference of their published studies that use ADSS data so we can add them to our list of research using ADSS data.

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This page was last updated on October 05, 2004.

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