Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Women with Co-Occurring Serious Mental Illness and a Substance Use Disorder
Web page indexing a recent SAMHSA report in HTML and Acrobat formats - "Based on SAMHSA's 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, nearly 2 million women aged 18 or older were estimated to have both serious mental illness (SMI) and a substance use disorder during the past year. Women with co-occurring SMI and a substance use disorder were more likely than men with co-occurring SMI and a substance use disorder to have received treatment for a mental disorder and/or specialty substance use treatment during the past year.."  
  

Teen Drug Treatment Jumps 65 Percent Over Decade, Federal Study Says
PR Newswire press release - "The number of admissions to substance abuse treatment for adolescents ages 12 to 17 increased again in 2002, continuing a ten-year trend. These data were released today in the 'Treatment Episode Data Set: National Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment Services 1992-2002' by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The new data show that the number of adolescents ages 12 to 17 admitted to substance abuse treatment increased 65 percent between 1992 and 2002. In 1992, adolescents represented 6 percent of all treatment admissions. By 2002, this proportion had grown to 9 percent. This report expands upon data published in May in the 'Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) Highlights 2002.'"