2010 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services Available

Produced by SAMHSA's Drug and Alcohol Services Information System, the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) is conducted annually and is designed to collect data on the location, characteristics, services offered, and number of clients in treatment at alcohol and drug abuse facilities (both public and private) throughout the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and other U.S. jurisdictions. The geographic data included in N-SSATS are state, county, Federal Information Processing Standards state and county codes, metropolitan statistical area, core-based statistical area, census region, and census division. The 2010 N-SSATS data and documentation files have been released for and download and online analysis through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) website. SAMHSA has also released a report titled, National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS): 2010 Data on Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities (8.43 MB). The report summarizes national and state-level data on programs and services provided in substance abuse treatment facilities in 2010 and presents trends in client and facility characteristics.

Access the 2010 N-SSATS Study

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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) provides easy access to current and comprehensive data on substance abuse and mental health. All datasets are available for download directly from the SAMHDA website in multiple file formats. In addition, SAMHDA offers online data analysis, tools to customize graphs and charts, interactive maps, bibliographies, and user support.

Faces & Voices of Recovery: Making Recovery Voices Count in 2012!

Addiction recovery is more than "just not using." As active citizens, we connect or reconnect with our communities. In our active addiction, many of us neglected our responsibilities, including participating in community life. At Faces & Voices of Recovery we are working to organize and mobilize the recovery community because by our silence we let others define us. We must hold elected officials and policy makers accountable, by informing them about the laws, rules and regulations that will benefit recovery and asking them to take a position on the issues that we care about.
- Steve Gumbley, Faces & Voices board chair

With the 2012 national elections approaching, recovery community organizations are getting ready to conduct voter registration and Get-Out-The-Vote activities, sponsoring candidate forums and getting candidates for political office on record about critical policies that will make recovery a reality for even more Americans. They are making RECOVERY VOICES COUNT as part of our 2012 Non-Partisan Civic Engagement campaign.

Use Faces & Voices of Recovery's new Guide and tools, including Questions for Candidates to educate candidates for public office about key issues and turn out voters in growing numbers so that we can have an even greater impact on the lives of people who still need help to recover and our communities.

Honoring Children of Alcoholics Week

The National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA) is sponsoring the 2012 Children of Alcoholics Week, observed from February 12 - 18th. Children of Alcoholics Week celebrates the recovery of the many thousands of children of all ages who have received the help they needed to recover from the pain and losses suffered in their childhood. To find out more about Children of Alcoholics Week and how you can participate, visit NACoA.