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Treatment Admissions for Injection Drug Abuse

The DASIS Report: Treatment Admissions for Injection Drug Abuse 

Highlights:

  • In 1999, there were 179,000 treatment admissions for primary injection drug abuse and 34,000 admissions for secondary injection drug abuse.

  • Opiates accounted for 83 percent of substance abuse treatment admissions for injection drug abuse, followed by methamphetamine/amphetamines (11 percent) and cocaine (5 percent).

  • Injection drug admissions of young people aged 15 to 25 years old increased between 1992 and 1999.

  • Injection drug users tended to use drugs for many years before entering the substance abuse treatment system.

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report:  Treatment Admissions for Injection Drug Abuse,  is based on the Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS), the primary source of national data on substance abuse treatment.  DASIS is conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  

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