National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), 2000

Abstract

the national survey of substance abuse treatment services n ssats is designed to collect information from all facilities in the united states both public and private that provide substance abuse treatment n ssats provides the mechanism for quantifying the dynamic character and composition of the united states substance abuse treatment delivery system the objectives of n ssats are to collect multipurpose data that can be used to assist the substance abuse and mental health services administration samhsa and state and local governments in assessing the nature and extent of services provided and in forecasting treatment resource requirements to update samhsa s inventory of behavioral health services i bhs to analyze general treatment services trends and to generate the online substance abuse treatment facility locator http findtreatment samhsa gov as well as the national directory of drug and alcohol abuse treatment programs data are collected on topics including facility operation services offered assessment testing transitional ancillary and pharmacotherapies detoxification primary focus substance abuse mental health both general health and other opioid treatment programs and medications dispensed prescribed counseling and therapeutic approaches standard operating procedures special programs groups offered languages in which treatment is provided type of treatment provided hospital inpatient residential outpatient number of clients by service total and under age 18 number of beds types of payment accepted sliding fee scale and facility accreditation and licensure certification this study has 1 data set