National Substance Use and Mental Health Services Survey (N-SUMHSS)
The National Substance Use and Mental Health Services Survey (N-SUMHSS) is a survey of all substance use and mental health treatment facilities in the United States, its territories, and the District of Columbia, sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Data Source
The N-SUMHSS provides federal, state, and local governments, as well as the behavioral health research community, with information about the number and characteristics of public and private substance use and mental health treatment facilities nationwide. This annual survey is crucial as the data gathered is the information on SAMHSA’s FindTreatment.gov website, our nation’s most comprehensive national source of data on substance use and mental health treatment facilities.
The N-SUMHSS replaced the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) and the National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS) in 2021 by combining questions for substance use and mental health facilities. The N-SSATS and N-MHSS were combined to reduce burden on the facilities, optimize government resources to collect data, and enhance the quality of data collected. For more information on the N-SUMHSS, please visit https://info.nsumhss.samhsa.gov.
How Are Facilities Listed on FindTreatment.gov?
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Inventory of Substance Use and Mental Health Treatment Facilities (I-TF)
Master list of registered U.S. behavioral health treatment facilities, known to SAMHSA
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National Substance Use and Mental Health Services Survey (N-SUMHSS)
Eligible facilities from the I-TF are invited to participate in the annual N-SUMHSS
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FindTreatment.gov *
Eligible facilities who complete the N-SUMHSS may opt to be listed on FindTreatment.gov
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Public
Persons can seek treatment facility information for mental and substance use disorders
*FindTreatment.gov is authorized by the 21st Century Cures Act.
Where Do the Data Come From?
The N-SUMHSS collects data on the location, characteristics, and utilization of substance use and mental health treatment facilities throughout the United States and its territories.
The Inventory of Substance Use and Mental Health Treatment Facilities (I-TF) is the list for the N-SUMHSS. The following types of substance use and mental health treatment facilities are included in the N-SUMHSS:
- Psychiatric, general, and state hospitals,
- Veteran Affairs medical centers,
- Certified community behavioral health clinics,
- Partial hospitalization/day treatment facilities,
- Outpatient facilities,
- Residential treatment centers for both children and adults,
- Multi-setting mental health facilities,
- Community mental health centers, and
- Other types of residential treatment that provide individually planned programs of mental health treatment services in a residential care setting.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is the N-SUMHSS?
- The N-SUMHSS is SAMHSA’s annual survey of all active substance use and mental health facilities in the United States, its territories, and the District of Columbia. It is the most comprehensive national source of data on substance use and mental health treatment facilities in the United States, its territories, and D.C. The N-SUMHSS is intended to provide behavioral health services providers, researchers, and federal, state, and local governments with information about the number and characteristics of substance use and mental health treatment facilities nationwide.
2. Why should facilities complete the N-SUMHSS?
- Completing the N-SUMHSS qualifies facilities to be listed in SAMHSA’s FindTreatment.gov, the most comprehensive resource for persons seeking treatment for mental and substance use disorders in the United States, its territories, and D.C. for substance use and/or mental disorders. To increase the visibility of treatment services available in response to the growing demand, SAMHSA shares facility information from FindTreatment.gov with commercially available search engines to help facilitate greater access to mental health and substance use treatment services.
3. What happened to the N-SSATS and N-MHSS?
- In 2021, SAMHSA combined the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) and the National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS) into the N-SUMHSS, making it the most comprehensive source of data on treatment services provided by substance use and mental health facilities in the United States, its territories, and D.C. The legacy N-SSATS and N-MHSS data and reports can be accessed from the SAMHSA website here: https://www.samhsa.gov/data/data-we-collect.
4. Should I compare the numbers from the N-SSATS and N-MHSS data and reports to the N-SUMHSS data and report?
- The N-SUMHSS should not be compared statistically with previous tables from the N-MHSS and N-SSATS as it is a new survey.
5. Where can I find data on characteristics of substance use and mental health treatment facilities for my state?
- The 2021 N-SUMHSS state specific profiles are coming soon. They will include data on the location, characteristics, services offered, and the number of clients in treatment for both substance use and mental health treatment facilities in the state.
Reports
Annual Report
Annual Detailed Tables
National Directories
State Profile
Questionnaires
Public Use Files
Quick Statistics
These state profiles include data from facilities that are reported to the N-SUMHSS survey.