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Explore gender differences among young adults for: any mental illness, serious mental illness, major depressive episodes, mental health treatment, and suicidal behavior. Estimates were based on data from the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).

This report examines the number, percentage, and characteristics of specialty mental health treatment facilities in the United States that use three quality assurance practices related to the behavioral health workforce as part of their standard operating procedures.

This report focuses on quality assurance practices related to the behavioral health workforce that are used in substance abuse treatment facilities in the United States and facility characteristics.

This short report describes the number, percent, and characteristics of specialty mental health treatment facilities in the United States that offered supported employment, an evidence-based practice for individuals with serious mental illness to gain employment.

This report presents facts about substance use among adults age 65 and older, including information on substance use on an average day, receipt of substance use treatment, and emergency department (ED) visits. This paper draws upon three SAMHSA data collections: the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), the...

This report uses the combined 2007 to 2012 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUHs), the 2012 Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), and the 2012 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) to examine opioid use and treatment among women of childbearing age (aged 15 to 44).

This report uses 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) data to examine the need for and receipt of substance use treatment at a specialty facility among people aged 12 or older. This report also examines perceived need for substance use treatment. Comparisons are made between adolescents aged...

This short report from the Drug Abuse Warning Network examines emergency department (ED) visits that involved a drug-related suicide attempt. It looks at the characteristics of the ED visits where the patient left against medical advice (before the ED visit was completed). It discusses how patients who left the ED...

This CBHSQ short report uses data from the 2011 Treatment Episode Data Set – Discharges (TEDS-D) and the 2012 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) to provide a portrait of treatment discharges among those referred to treatment by the criminal justice system, hereafter referred to as criminal justice...

A substantial proportion of adults and adolescents experience mild to severe mental health symptoms in the past year, but a large proportion of those individuals do not receive treatment. One of the main reasons they say they do not receive treatment is because the services are too expensive. This short...

This report looks at SAMHSA Block Grants that serve as a safety net for individuals without health insurance or other resources who seek specialty substance use treatment and prevention services. Under the Affordable Care Act, some of the treatment options that were covered by the SAMHSA Block Grants are likely...

This report looks at costs for substance use disorder treatment reported in the 2010 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. These data include costs for prescriptions for medications and behavioral treatment used to treat alcohol use disorders and opioid use disorders made in office visits to general and family practice physicians...

This short report uses 2002 to 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess heroin-related trends in the United States among those aged 12 or older. Topics covered include past year heroin use, dependence and abuse, receipt of substance use treatment for herion use, heroin initiation, perceived...

This report uses the 2011 Treatment Episode Data Set–Discharges (TEDS-D), a national data system of annual discharges from substance abuse treatment facilities, to create a profile of adolescents who enter treatment for substance abuse. Specifically, the report examines demographic characteristics of discharges from treatment, treatment setting, health insurance, primary substance...