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Treatment Admissions for Alcohol Abuse Alone and with a Drug Problem

The DASIS Report: Treatment Admissions for Alcohol Abuse Alone and with a Drug Problem

Highlights:

  • Alcohol was reported as the primary substance of abuse by almost half of the substance abuse treatment admissions reported to SAMHSA's 1999 Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS).  

  • The average age at substance abuse treatment admission for alcohol with a secondary drug problem was 33 years compared with 38 years for alcohol-only admissions. 

  • The secondary drug problems identified on substance abuse treatment admission records for persons with primary alcohol abuse included marijuana (62 percent), crack cocaine (26 percent), powder cocaine (20 percent), methamphetamine (9 percent), and heroin (7 percent).

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report:  Treatment Admissions for Alcohol Abuse Alone and with a Drug Problem,  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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