Table 4.20
Facilities with Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs) and clients receiving medication-assisted opioid therapy at OTPs and other facilities,
by facility operation and primary focus of facility: March 31, 2009
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 all
buprenor-
phine
clients
Number Percent Facilities with OTPs1 Other
facilities		 Total
buprenor-
phine
Total Methadone Buprenor-
phine		 Buprenor-
phine
Total  1,239 100.0 290,316 284,608 5,708 18,465 24,173 100.0 100.0
Facility operation      
Private non-profit   481  38.8 107,302 105,185  2,117 10,548 12,665  37.0  52.4
Private for-profit   623  50.3 156,601 154,007  2,594  5,595  8,189  54.1  33.9
Local, county, or community govt.    47   3.8   9,131   9,021    110    606    716   3.2   3.0
State government    37   3.0  11,487  11,343    144    437    581   4.0   2.4
Federal government    47   3.8   5,208   4,465    743  1,004  1,747   1.6   7.2
Dept. of Veterans Affairs    46   3.7   5,208   4,465    743    971  1,714   1.6   7.1
Dept. of Defense     - -      - -          ‡        - -       - -      4      4       ‡      *
Indian Health Service     1   0.1          ‡        - -       - -     22     22       ‡   0.1
Other     - -      - -          ‡        - -       - -      7      7       ‡      *
Tribal government     4   0.3     587     587       - -    275    275   0.2   1.1
Primary focus of facility      
Substance abuse treatment services 1,076  86.8 269,888 265,626  4,262  8,396 12,658  93.3  52.4
Mental health services    11   0.9     522     507     15    906    921   0.2   3.8
Mix of mental health and substance
    abuse treatment services		   139  11.2  18,410  17,124  1,286  8,243  9,529   6.0  39.4
General health care    13   1.0   1,496   1,351    145    791    936   0.5   3.9
Other/unknown     - -      - -        - -        - -       - -    129    129      - -   0.5
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.
NOTE: Percentages may not sum to 100 percent because of rounding.
SOURCE: Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2009.

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