November 16, 2001
Amphetamine Treatment Admissions Increase: 1993-1999 |
In Brief |
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Amphetamines
(central nervous system stimulants) made up less than 5 percent of the 1.6 million
admissions to publicly funded substance abuse treatment facilities in 1999. However, this
relatively small number represented an increase from almost 2 percent in 1993. Amphetamines can be smoked, injected, or inhaled. Methamphetamine is the primary form of amphetamine seen in the United States. It made up 94 percent of all amphetamine treatment admissions reported to the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) in 1999. Methamphetamine (known as speed, crank, ice, glass, or crystal meth) is produced in small clandestine laboratories or imported in larger quantities from Mexico. For this report, TEDS data were used to calculate amphetamine treatment admission rates per 100,000 persons aged 12 or older for each State. In 1993, amphetamine treatment admission rates were high in a few Western States-California, Oregon, and Nevada. By 1999, high amphetamine treatment admission rates were seen in most States west of the Mississippi.
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Amphetamine Treatment Admission Rates:
1993
Amphetamine Treatment Admission Rates:
1996 Amphetamine Treatment Admission Rates:
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1993
1996 1999 Admissions per 100,000 Aged 12 or Older
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Source: SAMHSA Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS).
Source: SAMHSA Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS).
Source: SAMHSA Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS).
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