Treatment Episode Data Set Teds 2004 PDF Download

The Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) is an administrative data system providing descriptive information about the national flow of admissions to providers of substance abuse treatment. The TEDS series was 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 unit of analysis is treatment admissions. TEDS includes both Minimum Data Set (MDS) data (required reporting) and Supplemental Data Set (SuDS) data (optional reporting), as reported to state substance abuse agencies by the treatment programs. Additional variables, such as calculated age and census region, are added to the state data. TEDS provides information on service setting, number of prior treatments, primary source of referral, employment status, whether methadone was prescribed in treatment, diagnosis codes, presence of psychiatric problems, living arrangements, source of income, health insurance, expected source of payment, substance(s) abused, route of administration, frequency of use, age at first use, pregnancy and veteran status, health insurance, and days waiting to enter treatment. Substances abused include alcohol, cocaine and crack, marijuana and hashish, heroin, nonprescription methadone, other opiates and synthetics, PCP, hallucinogens, methamphetamine, other amphetamines, other stimulants, benzodiazepines, other tranquilizers, barbiturates, other sedatives or hypnotics, inhalants, over-the-counter medications, and other. Demographic variables cover age, race, gender, income, marital status, and education. Created variables include total number of substances reported, intravenous drug use (IDU), and flags for any mention of specific substances. The public-use files were created using the data that were current as of October 2006 (the 10/3/2006 extract) ... Cf. : http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/04431.xml.