Effects of client characteristics on admission activity in United States federally funded drug treatment facilities.
Utilizing data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse's CODAP, this paper examines the effect of client characteristics and drug of abuse on certain admission activity variables. It generally sustains the hypotheses (1) that the demographic characteristics of clients (i.e., sex, age, race-ethnicity, and education) admitted to treatment have no effect on admission activity and (2) that type of primary drug problem (opiates, marijuana, alcohol, barbiturates, and amphetamines) at admission is strongly associated with admission activity. The implications of these data for nondiscriminatory admissions policies; for effective utilization of intake, treatment, and follow-up resources; and for training treatment agents are discussed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D005380:Financing, Government; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010343:Patient Admission; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D014481:United States