10.3886/ICPSR29901.v3 United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research 2011 alcohol abuse drug abuse drug treatment health care services health insurance intervention mental health substance abuse substance abuse treatment treatment programs 2011-04-25 2012-11-02 administrative records data 29901 3 <p>The Treatment Episode Data Set -- Discharges (TEDS-D) is an administrative data system providing descriptive information about discharges from alcohol or drug treatment in facilities that report to individual state administrative data systems. TEDS-D is part of a reporting system that was originally designed to provide annual data on the number and characteristics of persons admitted to public and private substance abuse treatment programs receiving public funding. The TEDS -- Admissions (TEDS-A) component began in 1992, and the TEDS-D component began reporting data in 2000. The unit of analysis is treatment discharges.</p> <p>Variables unique to TEDS-D are the length of stay, reason for leaving treatment, and service setting at time of discharge. TEDS-D also provides many of the same variables that are reported in the admissions data. This includes information on number of prior treatments, primary source of referral, gender, race, ethnicity, education, employment status, substance(s) abused, route of administration, frequency of use, age at first use, and whether methadone was prescribed in treatment. Supplemental variables include: diagnosis codes, presence of psychiatric problems, living arrangements, source of income, health insurance, expected source of payment, pregnancy and veteran status, marital status, detailed not in labor force codes, detailed criminal justice referral codes, days waiting to enter treatment, and the number of arrests in the 30 days prior to admissions.</p> <p>Substances abused include alcohol, cocaine and crack, marijuana and hashish, heroin, nonprescription methadone, other opiates and synthetics, PCP, other hallucinogens, methamphetamine, other amphetamines, other stimulants, benzodiazepines, other non-benzodiazepine tranquilizers, barbiturates, other non-barbiturate sedatives or hypnotics, inhalants, over-the-counter medications, and other substances.</p> <p>Created variables include total number of substances reported, intravenous drug use (IDU), and flags for any mention of specific substances.</p> <p>The public-use files were created using the data that were current as of October 2011 (the October 10, 2011, extract).</p>