Opiate and Meth Abuse Rates Not Declining

Highlights for 2007 Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS)

The report provides information on the demographic and substance abuse characteristics of the 1.8 million annual admissions to treatment for abuse of alcohol and drugs in facilities that report to individual State administrative data systems. TEDS does not include all admissions to substance abuse treatment. In general, facilities reporting TEDS data are those that receive State alcohol and/or drug agency funds (including Federal Block Grant funds) for the provision of alcohol and/or drug treatment services.

Five substances accounted for 96 percent of all TEDS admissions in 2007:
alcohol (40 percent);
opiates (19 percent; primarily heroin);
mar­ijuana/hashish (16 percent);
cocaine (13 percent); and stimulants
(8 percent, primarily methamphetamine.

More than two-thirds (69 percent) of all alcohol-only admissions were non- Hispanic White

For primary heroin admissions, the average age at admission was 36 years.

Just over half (53 percent) of primary non-heroin opiate admissions were male

Non-heroin opiates admissions are increasing from from 1 percent of all admissions in 1997 to 5 percent in 2007. These drugs include codeine, hydrocodone, hydro­morphone, meperidine, morphine, opium, oxycodone, pentazocine, propoxyphene, tramadol, and any other drug with morphine-like effects. Non-prescription use of methadone is not included.

Methamphetamine/Amphetamine and Other Stimulants* * The proportion of admissions for abuse of methamphetamine/amphetamine and other stimulants increased from 4 percent in 1997 to a high of 9 percent in 2005. In 2006 admissions decreased to 8 percent and remained at 8 percent in 2007.