Discharges from Long-term Residential Substance Abuse Treatment: 2000

The DASIS Report:  Discharges from Long-term Residential Treatment, 2000

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• In 2000, 18 States submitted discharge records for substance abuse treatment admissions to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS). These States were: California, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming.

• In SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) linked admission/ discharge records, 8 percent represented clients who received long-term residential substance abuse treatment. Long term residential treatment is defined as treatment that lasts more than 30 days. It does not include residential detoxification or residential treatment of 30 days or less.

• The completion rate for long-term residential treatment was highest (38%) involving alcohol as the primary substance of abuse. The completion rates for long-term residential treatment by other primary substances were: marijuana (32%), stimulants (30%), opiates (29%), and cocaine (29%).

• The median length of stay for completed long-term residential treatment episodes was 75 days, ranging from 73 days for cocaine to 91 days for opiates.

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report:  Discharges from Long-term Residential 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).  

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