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Telemedicine refers to the ability for healthcare providers, working from a distance using telecommunications technology, to communicate with patients, diagnose conditions, provide treatment, and discuss healthcare issues with other providers to ensure quality healthcare services are provided¹. Data from the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS)...

This report presents findings from the 2017 National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS) conducted from March 2017 through December 2017. The N-MHSS collects information from all known facilities in the United States, both public and private, that provide mental health treatment services to people with mental illness.3 The Center for...

This short report uses data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) to examine the emergency department (ED) visits for children aged 1 -5 that involved opioid pain relievers. Hydrocodone (Vicodin, Lortab), oxycodone (OxyContin, Percocet), and codeine are examples of opioid pain relievers; buprenorphine (Suboxone), is an opioid that is...

This report presents findings from the 2016 National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS) conducted from March 2016 through January 2017. The N-MHSS collects information from all known facilities in the United States, both public and private, that provide mental health treatment services to people with mental illness. The Center for...

The National Directory of Mental Health Treatment Facilities - 2017 is a listing of federal, state, and local government facilities and private facilities that provide mental health treatment services. It includes treatment facilities that responded to the 2016 National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS). The information about each facility that...

This report examines the number, percentage, and characteristics of specialty mental health treatment facilities in the United States that use three quality assurance practices related to the behavioral health workforce as part of their standard operating procedures.

This short report describes the number, percent, and characteristics of specialty mental health treatment facilities in the United States that offered supported employment, an evidence-based practice for individuals with serious mental illness to gain employment.

This short report uses data from the AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (HCUP-NEDS) to assess the prevalence of underage alcohol misuse–related emergency department (ED) visits. Changes in the trends of alcohol-only and drug and alcohol-combination ED visits by age, gender and time are examined.

This report presents facts about substance use among adults age 65 and older, including information on substance use on an average day, receipt of substance use treatment, and emergency department (ED) visits. This paper draws upon three SAMHSA data collections: the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), the...

The purpose of the medication-assisted treatment (MAT) facility maps is to identify areas on a state-by-state basis that may be potentially underserved by existing treatment facilities. The maps are created with a methodology that seeks to include the highest potential need areas from individual counties so that county-level stakeholders are...

The purpose of the medication-assisted treatment (MAT) facility maps is to identify areas on a state-by-state basis that may be potentially underserved by existing treatment facilities. The maps are created with a methodology that seeks to include the highest potential need areas from individual counties so that county-level stakeholders are...

This short report uses data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network to examine when alcohol-related emergency department (ED) visits occurred, by time of day and day of the week. Data from a nationally-representative sample of non-Federal, general hospitals with 24-hour EDs was used, with combined data for 2004-2011. The pattern...

This short report from the Drug Abuse Warning Network examines emergency department (ED) visits that involved a drug-related suicide attempt. It looks at the characteristics of the ED visits where the patient left against medical advice (before the ED visit was completed). It discusses how patients who left the ED...

There has been a significant increase in hospitalizations for opioid misuse in recent years. Using 2010-2014 MarketScan commercial data, this report finds that 40 percent of patients do not receive any follow-up services within 30 days after an opioid-related hospitalization. Only 11 percent of patients received the recommended combination of...

This report describes emergency department (ED) visits involving drug-related suicide attempts using data from the 2011 Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN). The ED visits for suicide attempts by middle-aged adults were more likely to involve alcohol combined with other drugs compared with other drug-related visits.