Admission to Treatment for Alcohol and Cocaine Users Relatively Declines While Marijuana and Stimulant Users Rise
Today's CESAR Fax reports the difference between the 1993 and 2003 data for the national Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS). While treatment for alcohol remained highest, data shows a decline from 57% of cases to 41%, while cocaine dropped 3 percentage points to 14% of cases. In the meanwhile, marijuana admissions doubled and stimulant admissions tripled, while opiate admission increased 5 percentage points to 18%.
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Your headline is misleading. The proportions have changed but information about the number of cases isn't provided. That needs to be derived from other variables. Although, as a matter of fact, there was a decline from 912661 admissions primarily for alcohol, in 1993, to 767829, in 2003.
Posted by: daksya | April 18, 2006 01:23 PM