Alcohol Only
- Admissions for abuse of alcohol alone, with no secondary drug abuse, represented 28
percent of TEDS admissions in 1996.
- Alcohol-only admissions tend to be male (77%) and white (73%) (Table 3.1). Alcohol
alone is the substance most likely to be reported by admissions over 40 years of age
(Table 3.2).
Figure 9. Alcohol Only
Admissions by Sex, Age, and Race/Ethnicity: 1996
- About 80 percent of alcohol-only admissions reported that they first became intoxicated
before the age of 18 (Table 3.5).
- Nearly half of alcohol-only admissions reported that they had not been in treatment
before the current episode (Table 3.5).
- The criminal justice system was responsible for referring 46 percent of alcohol-only
admissions to treatment (Table 3.7).
