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Highlights of Recent Reports on Substance Abuse and Mental Health

bulletby Year of Release:   2009       2008      2007      2006      2005      2004     2003      2002     2001 (reports are listed from most recent to earliest release)

bulletAll reports released in 2010 (listed from most recent to earliest release):

  • The NSDUH Report - Substance Use Treatment Need among Uninsured Workers - More than 18.4 million full-time employees aged 18 to 64 (15.5 percent of the full-time adult workers in that age range) had no health insurance coverage and represented the majority (54.5 percent) of adults under age 65 without health insurance coverage. An estimated 3.0 million uninsured full-time workers (16.3 percent) needed substance use treatment in the past year; specifically, 13.3 percent needed alcohol use treatment, 5.6 percent needed illicit drug use treatment, and 2.7 percent needed both alcohol and illicit drug use treatment. Of the uninsured workers who needed substance use treatment in the past year, 12.6 percent (378,000 persons) received treatment at a specialty facility.

  • The N-SSATS Report - -Similarities and Differences in Opioid Treatment Programs that Provide Methadone Maintenance or Buprenorphine Maintenance - A total of 1,132 substance abuse treatment facilities (or 8 percent of all substance abuse treatment facili­ties) operated an Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) in 2008, a percent­age that has remained constant since 2002. Of OTPs that provided methadone maintenance and/or buprenorphine maintenance services, 52.4 percent served only clients in the mainte­nance program and 47.6 percent served clients in the maintenance program as well as other substance abuse clients. Facilities with OTPs that served clients in addition to those in the maintenance program also offered a greater variety of treatment types and services than those that served only the maintenance client.

  • The N-SSATS Report - -Overview of Opioid Treatment Programs within the United States: 2008 - In 2008, 1,132 (8 percent) of all substance abuse treatment facilities were certified as Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs). Of these, 1,044 (92 percent) offered outpatient treatment. On March 31, 2008, there were 268,071 clients who received methadone and 4,280 clients who received buprenorphine in facilities with OTPs. In addition, 654 (58 percent) facilities with OTPs provided substance abuse treatment services in a language other than English, either by a staff counselor or through an on-call interpreter; and 498 (44 percent of all OTPs) provided these services by a staff counselor in Spanish.

  • The TEDS Report - Gender Differences among Black Treatment Admissions Aged 18 to 25 - In 2007, among non-Hispanic Black substance abuse treatment admissions aged 18 to 25, males were more likely than females to report marijuana as the primary substance of abuse (62.8 vs. 49.5 percent); however, females were three times more likely than males to report smoked cocaine as the primary substance of abuse (12.6 vs. 4.2 percent). More than two thirds (69.5 percent) of young adult Black male admissions were referred to treatment by the criminal justice system, compared to only about one third (35.7 percent) of female admissions. More than half of all young adult admissions had not completed high school or obtained a GED (50.9 per-cent for males and 55.1 percent for females) and most were either unemployed (42.5 percent for males and 43.4 percent for females) or not in the labor force (30.1 percent for males and 38.4 percent for females).

  • The NSDUH Report - Substance Use Treatment Need and Receipt among People Living in Poverty - Combined 2006 to 2008 data indicate that 3.7 million persons aged 12 or older living in poverty were in need of substance use treatment in the past year. Of these, 17.9 percent received treatment at a specialty facility during this time period. Males living in poverty were nearly twice as likely as their female counterparts to need treatment in the past year (17.1 vs. 8.9 percent), but were only as likely as their female counterparts to have received treatment. Among persons living in poverty, those aged 18 to 25 had the highest rate of past year treatment need; however, this age group had the lowest rate of treatment receipt.

  • The TEDS Report - Trends in Adult Female Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions Reporting Primary Alcohol Abuse: 1992 to 2007 - Between 1992 and 2007, the proportion of all adult female substance abuse treat­ment admissions with primary alcohol abuse declined from 47.4 per­cent to 33.4 percent; of these. During that same time, the propor­tion of adult female alcohol admissions aged 25 to 34 decreased from 43.2 to 23.2 percent, while the proportion aged 45 to 54 almost tripled from 9.4 to 24.1 percent. The proportion of adult female admis­sions that reported primary alcohol abuse and the secondary or tertiary abuse of other substances increased from 40.5 percent in 1992 to 44.6 percent in 2007.

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