You are here:

  • Print

released: 28 Jan 2011 author: AIHW

This data bulletin summarises the main findings from the 2008-09 Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set (AODTS-NMDS) for Western Australia. Other data bulletins are available for most state and territories in Australia. More detailed information about the 2008-09 collection and its national findings can be found in the publications Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia 2008-09: report on the National Minimum Data Set (AIHW 2010).

ISBN 978-1-74249-105-9; Cat. no. HSE 95; 16pp.; Out of Print

Highlights

In Western Australia (WA) in 2008–09, 44 government-funded alcohol and other drug treatment agencies provided 16,915 treatment episodes. This represented a decrease of 7 treatment agencies and around 1,800 treatment episodes compared with 2007–08. The median1 age of persons receiving treatment for their own drug use and those seeking treatment related to someone else’s drug use was similar to 2007–08 (30 years and 48 years, respectively).

Alcohol (46%), amphetamines (20%) and cannabis (16%) were again the top three drugs of concern.

As in 2007–08, counselling was the most common form of main treatment provided (56% of episodes), followed by rehabilitation (14%) and withdrawal management (10%).

  1. The median is the midpoint of a list of observations ranked from the smallest to the largest.

Recommended citation

AIHW 2011. Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Western Australia 2008-09: findings from the National Minimum Data Set (NMDS). Cat. no. HSE 95. Canberra: AIHW.