Announcements
New
2008 Treatment Episode Data Set - Admissions (TEDS-A)
The data and documentation files for the 2008 TEDS-A are now available for download and online analysis. Some of the changes new to this year include:
- Children aged 11 and younger are no longer included in the dataset.
- The variable, RACE, is no longer recoded. The individual categories for Asians and Pacific Islanders are no longer combined into an Asian and Pacific Islander category.
- The question text, variable labels, and value labels have been revised to more closely reflect the wording from the TEDS Admissions Manual.
The 2008 TEDS-A report will be available from the Office of Applied Studies. It is estimated to be released at the end of March or early part of April 2010.
2008 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (NSSATS)
The data and documentation files for the 2008 NSSATS are now available for download and online analysis.
Upcoming
Below is a list of forthcoming studies and their expected release dates:
2007 Treatment Episode Data Set - Discharges (TEDS-D), March 2010. The Office of Applied Studies expects to release the 2008 TEDS-D report at the end of March or early part of April 2010.
2000 to 2007 TEDS-A updates are expected to be available by March 2010. These updates will reflect the changes to the TEDS-A series noted above.
1992 to 1999 TEDS-A updates are also anticipated to be available by March 2010. These updates will reflect the changes to the TEDS-A series noted above.
An updated 1992- Present TEDS-A concatenated file will be available shortly after the above updates are complete.
Conferences
Please join SAMHDA at two upcoming conferences. Visit our booth for more information about SAMHDA and to see demonstrations of our redesigned Web site.
The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Conference being held at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis, April 15th through 18th.
Booth 27 at the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) Health Journalism Conference being held in Chicago at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, April 23rd through 25th.
Ongoing
The SAMHDA brochure and poster are available free-of-charge.
We welcome the submission of citations based on SAMHDA or ICPSR data; just email them to bibliography@icpsr.umich.edu.
We appreciate the appropriate citation for analyses using data obtained from SAMHDA. Each SAMHDA study description and codebook includes a suggested bibliographic citation for the data.
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Last Updated February 26, 2010.
