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Treatment Admissions Reporting Abuse of Both Alcohol and Drugs: 1997-2007

The TEDS Report - Treatment Admissions Reporting Abuse of Both Alcohol and Drugs: 1997-2007

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Between 1997 and 2007, the proportion of substance abuse treatment admissions reporting co-abuse of alcohol and drugs declined from 45.3 to 39.4 percent.   The most common combinations reported by co-abuse admissions in both 1997 and 2007 were alcohol and marijuana and alcohol and cocaine; however, the proportion of co-abuse admissions reporting alcohol and cocaine decreased between 1997 and 2007, from 51.1 percent to 44.8 percent.  Nearly two thirds of co-abuse admissions had been in treatment at least once before (61.3 in 1997 and 59.6 percent in 2007). 

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The TEDS Report - Treatment Admissions Reporting Abuse of Both Alcohol and Drugs: 1997-2007, is based on SAMHSA's Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS) conducted by SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older.   SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health also provides estimates for drug use by State.

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