Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) Highlights - 2003 National Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment Services

This report presents summary results from
the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) for
2003. The report provides information on the
demographic and substance abuse characteristics
of the 1.8 million annual admissions to
treatment for abuse of alcohol and drugs in
facilities that report to individual State administrative
data systems.
This Summary Report is issued in advance of
the full TEDS Report for 1993-2003. It includes
demographic data and all items from the TEDS
Minimum Data Set. The Annual Report also will
include data from the Supplemental Data Set,
State data, and State rates. TEDS is an admission-based system, and TEDS
admissions do not represent individuals. Thus,
for example, an individual admitted to treatment
twice within a calendar year would be counted
as two admissions.
TEDS does not include all admissions to substance
abuse treatment. It includes admissions
to facilities that are licensed or certified by the
State substance abuse agency to provide substance
abuse treatment (or are administratively
tracked for other reasons). In general, facilities
reporting TEDS data are those that receive State
alcohol and/or drug agency funds (including
Federal Block Grant funds) for the provision of
alcohol and/or drug treatment services.