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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 Victoria. 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 978-1-74249-112-7; Cat. no. HSE 104; 15pp.; Out of Print

Highlights

In Victoria, 136 publicly funded alcohol and other drug treatment agencies and outlets supplying data provided 47,089 treatment episodes in 2008–09. This represented a decrease of 2 agencies and around 500 treatment episodes compared with 2007–08. The median1 age of persons receiving treatment for their own drug use and those seeking treatment for someone else’s drug use (31 years and 33 years, respectively) was similar to 2007–08.

Alcohol (44%), cannabis (24%), opioids (19%, with heroin alone accounting for 15%), and amphetamines (7%) were again the most common principal drugs of concern.

Counselling was the most common form of main treatment provided (accounting for 47% of episodes, the same as 2007–08), followed by withdrawal management (detoxification) (21%) and support and case management only (14%

  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 Victoria 2008-09: findings from the National Minimum Data Set (NMDS). Cat. no. HSE 104. Canberra: AIHW.