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The TEDS Report - TEDS 2006 Discharge Report

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The Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) report on Discharges from Substance Abuse Treatment Services provides results on the approximately 1.5 million treatment discharges occurring in 2006 at reporting state-licensed treatment facilities across the country. The report provides information on treatment completion, length of stay in treatment, and demographic and substance abuse characteristics of discharges from alcohol or drug treatment in facilities that reported to individual State administrative data systems. The 2006 TEDS Discharge Report is the latest in a series of yearly reports that not only provides overall figures for the 42 states that report discharge data to TEDS (an increase from previous years), but also breaks this information down into a wide variety of programmatic and demographic criteria that can help provide greater perspective on the experiences of those who have undergone substance abuse treatment.

Overall the report found that the patient completion rate during 2006 was 47 percent among patients discharged from reporting facilities, but that these rates varied considerably depending on a number of factors including the substance abuse problem being treated and type of service provided by facilities.

Among the more notable findings in this latest report:

• The overall treatment completion rate was highest among clients discharged from hospital residential treatment (70 percent), detoxification (67 percent) and short-term residential treatment (59 percent). Treatment completion rates were lower in longer term and/or less-structured settings such as long term residential (44 percent) and outpatient treatment (40 percent).

• The median length of stay for discharges from regular outpatient treatment was 87 days, but was only 4 days for detoxification.

• Completion rates tended to be higher among those discharged from treatment for primarily alcohol-related issues, and for those who were employed.

It is important to note that TEDS is an episode-based system and this means its figures for discharges do not directly correspond to the number of individuals discharged from treatment programs in a given year. For example, one individual who had undergone treatment twice during the same year would be counted as two discharges in the TEDS report.

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The TEDS Report - TEDS 2006 Discharge Report, 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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