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New Heroin Users Admitted to Substance Abuse Treatment:  1992-2000
 

The DASIS Report:  New Heroin Users Admitted to Treatment: 1992-2000

 

Highlights:

  • Heroin was the leading illicit drug among substance abuse treatment admissions in 2000, reported by 15 percent of the 1.6 million substance abuse treatment admissions in SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS). 

  • Between 1992 and 2000, the primary type of detoxification changed from ambulatory to free-standing residential.

  • The proportion of new heroin users admitted to substance abuse treatment who were younger than 25 years old increased from 30 to 41 percent between 1992 and 2000. 

  • In 1992, 48 percent of new heroin users age 18 to 24 reported injection as the route of heroin administration.  By 2000, almost two-thirds (63 percent) reported injection as the route of administration for heroin.

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This Short Report,  The DASIS Report:  New Heroin Users Admitted to Treatment: 1992-2000,  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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