Characteristics of Primary Tranquilizer Treatment Admissions: 2002

The DASIS Report: Characteristics of Primary Tranquilizer Admissions, 2002

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Highlights:

• Tranquilizers are a class of central nervous depressant drugs commonly prescribed for anxiety or insomnia. Tranquilizers include benzodiazepines, such as Valium®, Xanax®, and Librium®, as well as non-benzodiazepine tranquilizers.

• Between 1992 and 2002, substance abuse treatment admissions reporting tranquilizers as their primary substance of abuse to SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) increased 79% from 4,600 admissions in 1992 to 8,300 in 2002.

• Among the additional 32,800 admissions which reported tranquilizers as a secondary or tertiary substance of abuse in 2002, opiates (46%) and alcohol (30%) were the most common primary substances of abuse.

• Primary tranquilizer admissions were most frequent in the South (40%) and least frequent in the West (12%) and Midwest (15%).

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This Short Report, The DASIS Report: Characteristics of Primary Tranquilizer Admissions, 2002 , is based on the Drug and Alcohol Services Information System (DASIS), the primary source of national data on substance abuse treatment.  DASIS is conducted by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).