[SAMHDA] 2006 TEDS released; upcoming ASAM and SALIS conferences

[Updates and new releases]

The following are updates from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Data Archive (SAMHDA):


New:

2006 Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) released:

The data and documentation files for the 2006 TEDS study are now
available for download and online analysis.

Access the 2006 TEDS:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/SAMHDA/STUDY/21540.xml
Access all available years of TEDS:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/SAMHDA/SERIES/00056.xml

Quick Tables updates for the 1992-2005 TEDS:

1992-2005 TEDS Quick Tables and 1992-2005 Concatenated TEDS Quick Tables
have been updated to expand the number of Primary Substances of Abuse
categories. View all studies available for analysis using Quick Tables:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/qt.html

Updated Data Use Tutorial:

Our Data Use Tutorial was recently expanded and updated; view the
tutorial at: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/help/newuser.html


Upcoming:

Within the next two weeks, we expect to release the 2006 TEDS for Quick
Tables and updates to the 2000-2005 TEDS. Once these updates are
completed, a new 1992-2006 TEDS Concatenated file will be available for
online analysis. 

SAMHDA will exhibit at the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)
Annual Conference in Toronto April 10-12. See the ASAM Web site for more
information: http://www.asam.org. 

SAMHDA will also present at this year's Substance Abuse Librarians and
Information Specialists (SALIS) Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington in
early May. See the SALIS Web site for additional information:
http://www.salis.org. 


Ongoing:

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. For more information on
appropriately citing electronic data files, see
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/org/citation.html.

We welcome the submission of citations for publications based on our
data holdings for our online citations database. Use the Web form on the
following page for submitting citations:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/ref-form.html. You may submit papers,
book chapters, etc. that are not yet published and we will track and add
them to the database once they are published. To access the citations
database, select the "related literature" link for a given study or
series.

Please call our toll-free helpline or email us with any questions or
problems regarding our data holdings, online data analysis system, or
Web site.

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