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Admissions with 5 or More Prior Treatment Episodes: 2002

 

The DASIS Report:  Admissions with Five or More Prior Treatment Episodes: 2002

Highlights

  • Most of the substance abuse treatment admissions in 2002 reported to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) were either first-time admissions (44%) or had between one and four previous treatment episodes (45%). The remaining 11% had five or more previous treatment episodes.
  • Substance abuse treatment admissions reporting 5 or more prior treatment episodes were more likely than first time admissions to report opiates as their primary substance of abuse (36% vs. 10%). 
  • Admissions with 5 or more prior treatment episodes were more likely than first time admissions to have been self or individually referred (52% vs. 27%) or to have been referred by an alcohol or drug abuse provider (18% vs. 6%), and less likely to have been referred by the criminal justice system (16% vs. 47%).

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report:  Admissions with Five or More Prior Treatment Episodes: 2002, 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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