{"id":1193,"date":"2009-04-24T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2009-04-24T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T12:10:00","slug":"snippets-from-samhsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/04\/snippets-from-samhsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Snippets from SAMHSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span>Snippets from SAMHSA<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>In 2000, an estimated 4.7 million people aged 12 or older (2.1 percent of the\u00a0 total population) needed treatment for an illicit drug abuse problem.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>16.6 percent of the people who needed treatment in 2000, received Priority treatment services at a specialty facility.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>Among Hispanic male admissions in 1999, alcohol was the most common primary substance of abuse(39%), followed by opiates (32%) and marijuana(14%).<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>In 1999, the most common primary substance of abuse among Hispanic female admissions was opiates (34%), followed by alcohol (26\u00b0\/o) and cocaine (16%).<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>In 1999, opiates were the most common substance of abuse for Hispanic admissions aged 25-44, while alcohol was the most common substance of abuse for non-Hispanic admissions in the 25-44 age group.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2002) The DASIS Report:<\/span><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span>Hispanics in Substance Abuse Treatment: 1999. office of Applied Studies, Rockville, MD.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snippets from SAMHSA In 2000, an estimated 4.7 million people aged 12 or older (2.1 percent of the\u00a0 total population) needed treatment for an illicit drug abuse problem. 16.6 percent of the people who needed treatment in 2000, received Priority treatment services at a specialty facility. Among Hispanic male admissions in 1999, alcohol was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,36,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-treatment-addiction","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}