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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 Queensland. 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 978-1-74249-109-7; Cat. no. HSE 99; 13pp.; Out of Print

Highlights

In Queensland in 2008–09, 122 government-funded alcohol and other drug treatment agencies provided 25,523 treatment episodes. The median1 age of persons receiving treatment (for their own drug use and those seeking treatment for someone else’s drug use) was 29 years (31 years for females and 29 years for males).

Cannabis and alcohol were the most common principal drugs of concern at around 36% of treatment episodes each, followed by amphetamines and opioids (8% each, with heroin accounting for half the treatment episodes for opioid use).

The greatest proportion of treatment episodes was for information and education only (40%) followed by counselling (25%) and assessment only (18%).

  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 Queensland 2008-09: findings from the National Minimum Data Set (NMDS). Cat. no. HSE 99. Canberra: AIHW.