This report provides national State- and Territory-level statistics on alcohol and other drug treatment services; the clients who use these services; and the type of drug problems for which treament is being sought. It is the first report in what will be a series of annual publications on the Alcohol and Other Drug Treament Services National Minimum Data Set (AODTS-NMDS). This first report predominantly provides information about the clients who access these treatment services – in future collection years there will be a greater emphasis on reporting information about the treatment services.
Preliminary material: List of tables; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Highlights
1. Introduction
- Background
- Alcohol and other drug treatment activities
- Detoxification
- Pharmacological treatment
- Counselling
- Rehabilitation
- The national collection
- Scope of the collection
- Exclusion of methadone
- Agencies and clients within scope
- Agencies and clients excluded
- Diversity of data collection systems
- Interpretation of the data
- Profile of treatment services
2. Client profile
- Client registrations
- Indigenous status
- Source of referral
- Principal drug of concern
- Jurisdictions
- Sex and age
- Indigenous status
- Source of referral
- Injecting drug use
- Other drugs of concern
- Principal drug trends
3. Other data collections
- Background
- Monitoring alcohol and other drug problems in Australia
- National Drug Strategy Household Survey
- Clients of Treatment Service Agencies
- Illicit Drug Reporting System
- National Methadone/buprenorphine statistics
4. Development and data quality of AODTS-NMDS
- Move to 'treatment episodes' for 2001-02
- New data items and concepts for 2001-02
- Data quality in 2000-01
- Background
- Comprehensiveness of collection
- Data quality - selected data items
- Not stated responses
Appendixes
- Appendix 1: Data elements included in the NMDS for 2000-01
- Appendix 2: Technical notes
- Data presentation
- Client registration versus treatment episode data
- Excluding under-age clients
- Summary of editing performed on the data
- Appendix 3: Rural, Remote and Metropolitan Area (RRMA) classification
- Appendix 4: Detailed tables
- Appendix 5: ASCDC classification
End matter: References