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Thursday, August 9, 2007

Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) - 2005 National Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment Services

This report presents results from the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) for 2005, and trend data for 1995 to 2005. The report provides information on the demographic and substance abuse characteristics of the 1.8 million annual admissions to treatment for abuse of alcohol and drugs in facilities that report to individual State administrative data systems.

Five substances accounted for 95 percent of the 1,849,548 TEDS admissions in 2005: alcohol (39 percent), opiates (17 percent, primarily heroin), marijuana (16 percent), cocaine (14 percent), and stimulants (9 percent, primarily methamphetamine

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