Treatment Updates Include Directory, Facility Locator
SAMHSA's updated guide, the National Directory of
Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs 2005,
provides information on thousands of alcohol and drug
treatment programs located in all 50 states, the District
of Columbia, and four U.S. territories.
The directory is a nationwide inventory of substance
abuse and alcoholism treatment programs and facilities
that is organized and presented in a state-by-state format
for quick reference by health care providers, social
workers, managed care organizations, and the general
public.
The Agency also updated the online Treatment
Facility Locator available on the SAMHSA Web site.
The locator is a searchable database of addiction treatment
programs around the country. To help users, SAMHSA's
Office of Applied Studies (OAS) recently released a short
report, Using
the Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator,
a detailed set of instructions on how to search.
The locator's Web site also includes a list of state
substance abuse agencies, contact information for those
agencies, and links to their Web sites. In addition,
a link is provided to SAMHSA's Buprenorphine Physician
Locator, which identifies physicians—by ZIP code,
city, county, or state—who are authorized to prescribe
buprenorphine.
To access SAMHSA's Treatment Facility Locator, visit
SAMHSA's Web site at http://findtreatment.samhsa.gov.
To obtain a copy of the National Directory of Drug
and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs 2005 or the
OAS short report, contact SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse
for Alcohol and Drug Information, P.O. Box 2345, Rockville,
MD 20847-2345. Telephone: 1 (800) 729-6686 or 1 (866)
889-2647 (TTY). The short report is also available online
at www.oas.samhsa.gov.
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