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The
DASIS Report: Discharges from Outpatient Treatment, 2000
Highlights
- States
are asked to submit data for all discharges from substance abuse treatment.
Approximately 348,000 records for clients discharged from treatment in 2000 were
submitted by 18 States; 94 percent of these records could be linked to one of
SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) admission records.
- The
reasons for discharge among the outpatient substance abuse treatment discharges
were: 34 percent completed treatment; 24 percent terminated by facility;
23% left against professional advice; 8 percent transferred for further treatment;
and 11 percent for other reasons.
- Substance
abuse treatment completion rates differed by primary substance of abuse.
The outpatient treatment completion rates were 41 percent for those involving
alcohol, 32 percent for marijuana, 30 percent for stimulants, 27 percent for opiates,
and 21 percent for cocaine as the primary substance of abuse.
- The
median length of stay for completed outpatient treatment episodes was 91 days.
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This Short Report,
The DASIS Report: Discharges from Outpatient Treatment, 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). For
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