Table 4.20
Facilities with Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs) and clients receiving medication-assisted opioid therapy,
by facility operation and primary focus of facility: March 31, 2008
Number and percent distribution 
Facility operation and primary focus Facilities with OTPs1 No. of clients receiving medication-assisted opioid therapy Percent
distribution
of
methadone
clients
Percent
distribution
of buprenor-
phine clients
Number Percent Facilities with OTPs1 Other
facilities
Total
buprenor-
phine
Total Methadone Buprenor-
phine
Buprenor-
phine
Total  1,132 100.0 272,351 268,071 4,280 11,452 15,732 100.0 100.0
Facility operation      
Private non-profit   440  38.9 104,436 102,793 1,643  5,602  7,245  38.3  46.1
Private for-profit   558  49.3 141,050 139,331 1,719  4,248  5,967  52.0  37.9
Local, county, or community govt.    52   4.6  10,870  10,816    54    466    520   4.0   3.3
State government    43   3.8  10,928  10,787   141    279    420   4.0   2.7
Federal government    36   3.2   4,636   3,913   723    750  1,473   1.5   9.4
Dept. of Veterans Affairs    36   3.2   4,636   3,913   723    601  1,324   1.5   8.4
Dept. of Defense     - -      - -                              1      1            *
Indian Health Service     - -      - -                             92     92         0.6
Other     - -      - -                             56     56         0.4
Tribal government     3   0.3     431     431     - -    107    107   0.2   0.7
Primary focus of facility      
Substance abuse treatment services   989  87.4 250,521 247,433 3,088  6,179  9,267  92.3  58.9
Mental health services    11   1.0     687     637    50    453    503   0.2   3.2
Mix of mental health and substance
    abuse treatment services
  119  10.5  19,272  18,270 1,002  4,052  5,054   6.8  32.1
General health care    11   1.0   1,333   1,193   140    766    906   0.4   5.8
Other/unknown     2   0.2     538     538     - -      2      2   0.2      *
1 Facilities certified as Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs) by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
*  Less than 0.05 percent.
 - -  Quantity is zero.
‡ No facilities in this category.
SOURCE: Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2008.

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