Treatment Episode Data Set

Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) Highlights - 2006: National Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment Services, Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, January 2008

This report presents summary results from the Treatment Episode Data Set for 2006.  The report provides information on the demographic and substance abuse characteristics of the 1.8 million annual admissions to treatment for abuse of alcohol and drugs in facilities that report to individual State administrative data systems.

•    Five major substances accounted for 96 percent of all TEDS admissions in 2006: alcohol (40 percent); opiates (18 percent, primarily heroin); marijuana/hashish (16 percent); cocaine (14 percent); and stimulants (9 percent, primarily methamphetamine).

•    Between 1996 and 2006 the percentage of treatment admissions for methamphetamine, prescription drug and marijuana abuse rose.

•    Although the percentage of treatment admissions for primary heroin abuse is at about the same level it was a decade ago, the percent of treatment admissions for other opiates – mainly misused prescription pain killers – increased from 1 percent in 1996 to 4 percent in 2006.

•    The proportion of treatment admissions for primary marijuana abuse increased from 12 percent in 1996 to 16 percent in 2006.

•    Treatment admissions for abuse of methamphetamine/amphetamine and other stimulants rose from 3 percent in 1996 to 9 percent in 2006.

•    The proportion of admissions for primary cocaine/crack abuse declined from 16 percent in 1996 to 13 percent in 2001, but has increased slightly to 14 percent since 2004.

The full report can be found at http://oas.samhsa.gov/dasis.htm#teds2