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Employment Status and Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions, 2006

The DASIS Report - -  Employment Status and Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions, 2006

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  • Of the substance abuse treatment admissions aged 18 to 64 reported to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), 31% in 2006 were employed full- or part-time at the time of admission, 33% were unemployed, and 36% were not in the labor force (i.e., not employed and not looking for work).
  • Full time employed substance abuse treatment admissions were more likely to report alcohol as their primary substance of abuse (58%) than substance abuse treatment admissions who were homemakers (35%), unemployed (39%), labor force dropouts (39%), or disabled (46%).
  • Substance abuse treatment admissions who were labor force dropouts were more than twice as likely as admissions who were employed full time to report daily use of their primary substance in the past month (56% vs. 26%).
  • Substance abuse treatment admissions who were homemakers (59%) or who were employed full time (57%) were more likely to report entering treatment for the first time than admissions who were unemployed (40%), labor force dropouts (47%), or disabled (41%).

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report - -  Employment Status and Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions, 2006, 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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