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Women in Treatment for Smoked Cocaine:  2000

The DASIS Report:  Women in Treatment for Smoked Cocaine: 2000

 

 Highlights:

  • Based on SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), the number of adult women admissions (age 18 and older) to substance abuse treatment for primary use of smoked cocaine (crack) peaked in 1994.  Between 1994 and 2000, both the total number of such admissions and the number of first-time admissions declined.  
  • More than a decade after the introduction of smoked cocaine (crack), 14 percent of all adult female admissions to substance abuse treatment were for the primary use of crack cocaine.  The average length of crack cocaine use was 12 years prior to admission.  About 58 percent of the adult female admissions for crack were Black, 32 percent were white and 5 percent were Hispanic.
  • In 2000, almost half of the adult women admissions for crack cocaine reported alcohol abuse and 29 percent reported marijuana abuse.

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report:  Women in Treatment for Smoked Cocaine: 2000  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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