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Highlights: Between 1992 and 2008, the number of admissions to substance abuse treatment aged 50 or older more than doubled (from approximately 102,700 in 1992 to 231,200 in 2008). Unemployment among older treatment admissions rose from nearly one fifth (19.4 percent) in 1992 to nearly one third (31.0 percent) in 2008, while full-time employment declined (from 23.4 percent in 1992 to 16.7 percent in 2008). Among admissions aged 50 or older, wages/salary as a principal source of income dropped from 32.3 percent in 1992 to 24.4 percent in 2008. Other OAS publications and services The TEDS Report - Sociodemographic Characteristics of Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions Aged 50 or Older: 1992 to 2008, 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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SAMHSA, an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services, is the Federal Government's lead agency for improving the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment, and mental health services in the United States.
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