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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 South 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 978-1-74249-110-3; Cat. no. HSE 102; 13pp.; Out of Print

Highlights

In South Australia (SA) in 2008–09, 55 publicly funded government and non-government alcohol and other drug treatment agencies provided 9,664 treatment episodes. This represented an increase of 6 treatment agencies and 687 treatment episodes from 2007–08. The median1 ages of persons receiving treatment for their own drug use and those seeking treatment in relation to someone else’s drug use was the same as for 2007–08 (34 years and 45 years, respectively).

Alcohol was again the most common principal drug of concern (53%), followed by amphetamines (13%) and heroin (11%).

Assessment only episodes decreased slightly from 30% in 2007–08 to 27% in 2008–09, but remained the most common form of main treatment provided in South Australia. This was followed by counselling (26%), withdrawal management (17%) and rehabilitation (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 South Australia 2008-09: findings from the National Minimum Data Set (NMDS). Cat. no. HSE 102. Canberra: AIHW.