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released: 18 Aug 2005 author: AIHW media release

This report presents national, state and territory data on publicly funded alcohol and other drug treatment services and their clients, including information about the types of drug problems for which treatment is sought and the types of treatment provided. This is the fourth report in the series of annual publications on the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set (AODTS-NMDS). This report, along with others in the Drug Treatment Series, is useful for policy-makers, planners, researchers and the broader community.

ISSN 1447-6746; ISBN 978 1 74024 491 6; Cat. no. HSE 100; 138pp.; $24.00

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (181K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • List of boxes
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Highlights
  • Sections
    1. Introduction (Sections 1-4: 292K PDF)
      • Background
      • Collection method and data included
      • Scope of the AODTS-NMDS
      • Counts in the collection
      • Nature of the 2003-04 AODTS-NMDS collection
      • Outputs from the AODTS-NMDS collection
      • Recent drug use
    2. Treatment agency profile
      • Establishment sector
      • Location of treatment agencies
    3. Client profile
      • Closed treatment episodes and client registrations
      • Client type and jurisdictions
      • Age and sex
      • Indigenous status
      • Country of birth and preferred language
    4. Drugs of concern
      • Jurisdictions and principal drug of concern
      • Sex, age and principal drug of concern
      • Country of birth and principal drug of concern
      • Indigenous status and principal drug of concern
      • Geographic location and principal drug of concern
      • Source of referral and principal drug of concern
      • Other drugs of concern
      • Injecting drug use and method of use
      • Reason for cessation and principal drug of concern
    5. Treatment programs (Sections 5-8: 368K PDF)
      • Jurisdictions and treatment programs
      • Main treatment for selected principal drugs
      • Client type, source of referral and treatment programs
      • Sex, age and treatment program
      • Indigenous status and treatment program
      • Geographic location and treatment program
      • Additional treatments
      • Reason for cessation and treatment program
    6. Special theme - Amphetamines
      • Introduction
      • Client profile
      • Treatment programs
    7. Other data collections
      • Background
      • Monitoring alcohol and other drug problems
      • Use, mortality and morbidity data
      • National pharmacotherapy statistics
      • Alcohol and other drug treatment services provided by services funded to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
    8. Data quality of the AODTS-NMDS in 2003-04
      • Introduction
      • Data quality
      • Data transmission
  • End matter (276K PDF)
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1: Data elements included in the AODTS-NMDS for 2003-04
      • Appendix 2: Policy and administrative features in each jurisdiction
      • Appendix 3: Technical notes
      • Appendix 4: Detailed tables
      • Appendix 5: AODTS-NMDS treatment types
      • Appendix 6: Australian Standard Geographical Classification
      • Appendix 7: Australian Standard Classification of Drugs of Concern (ASCDC)
    • References

Recommended citation

AIHW 2005. Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia 2003-04: report on the NMDS. Drug treatment series 4. Cat. no. HSE 100. Canberra: AIHW.