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This report looks at SAMHSA Block Grants that serve as a safety net for individuals without health insurance or other resources who seek specialty substance use treatment and prevention services. Under the Affordable Care Act, some of the treatment options that were covered by the SAMHSA Block Grants are likely...
Describes emergency department (ED) visits involving the nonmedical use of narcotic pain relievers (opioids) using data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN). The drugs most commonly combined with narcotic pain relievers in ED visits; trends for narcotic pain relievers (2005-2011); demographic characteristics of narcotic pain reliever-related visits in 2011...
This report looks at costs for substance use disorder treatment reported in the 2010 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. These data include costs for prescriptions for medications and behavioral treatment used to treat alcohol use disorders and opioid use disorders made in office visits to general and family practice physicians...
This short report uses data on drug-related emergency department (ED) visits from the Drug Abuse Warning Network to look at 2011 ED visits involving synthetic cannabinoids. It shows trends compared to 2010 by gender, age group, the age distribution of patients, the drugs most commonly combined with synthetic cannabinoids and...
This Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) short report shows the estimated number of emergency department visits for adverse reactions involving the pain medication tramadol between 2005 and 2011. The report specifically talks about age groups, gender, trends over time and other drugs such as cardiovascular medications, antidepressants and other pain...
This Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) short report shows the estimated number of emergency department visits involving misuse or abuse of the pain medication tramadol between 2005 and 2011. The report specifically talks about age groups, gender, trends over time and other drugs such as narcotic pain relievers, anti-anxiety and...
This report uses the 2011 Treatment Episode Data Set–Discharges (TEDS-D), a national data system of annual discharges from substance abuse treatment facilities, to create a profile of adolescents who enter treatment for substance abuse. Specifically, the report examines demographic characteristics of discharges from treatment, treatment setting, health insurance, primary substance...
This is a bibliography of SAMHSA data reports about women and girls published from 2001-2014.
This short report examines emergency department (ED) visits involving benzodiazepines, which are medications prescribed to relieve symptoms of anxiety, panic attacks and seizures. It looks at the effect of combining benzodiazepines with opioid pain relievers or alcohol, both substances that also depress the central nervous system. The report quantifies the...
This is a Behavioral Health Services Information System (BHSIS) short report explaining substance abuse treatment before the Affordable Care Act and the trends in social and economic characteristics of facilities and admissions from 2006 to 2011 in the United States.
This is a Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) short report showing the age of substance use initiation among treatment admissions aged 18 to 30 in 2011. The Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) is a national data system of annual admissions to substance abuse treatment facilities. TEDS received treatment admission records...
This is an National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (NSSATS) short report. It is about what services are offered by opiod treatment programs in 2012.
This short report uses data on drug-related emergency department (ED) visits to examine the involvement of zolpidem in ED visits that are related to overmedication. Zolpidem is a medication used to treat insomnia. Overmedication may occur when a patient takes too much of their own medications (i.e., exceeds the prescribed...
This short report uses data on drug-related emergency department (ED) visits from the Drug Abuse Warning Network to examine the trends in ED visits involving methamphetamine from 2007 to 2011. In addition to the trends for total methamphetamine-related visits, it also shows trends by gender and by age group; the...