The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) generates state-level estimates for 23 measures of substance use and mental health problems for four age groups: the entire state population over age 12 (12+); individuals age 12 to 17; individuals age 18 to 25; and individuals age 26 and older (26+). Since State estimates of substance use and abuse were first generated using the combined 2002–2003 NSDUHs and continuing until the most recent State estimates based on the combined 2005– 2006 surveys, rates in Kansas have been among the lowest in the country on the following measures.


Abuse and Dependency in Kansas
Questions in NSDUH are used to classify persons as being dependent on or abusing specific substances based on criteria specified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM-IV) (American Psychiatric Association, 1994).

Rates of past year alcohol dependence have generally been at or above the national rates, especially for the age groups 12 to 17 and 18 to 25. Rates of past year drug dependence, however, have generally been at or below the national rates.

Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities in Kansas
According to the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), the number of treatment facilities in Kansas has increased from 182 in 2002, to 236 in 2006. Of the 236 facilities responding to the 2006 survey, nearly half (116 or 49%) were private nonprofit facilities, and 85 (36%) were private for-profit facilities.

Although facilities may offer more than one modality of care, in 2006 the majority of facilities (226 or 96%) offered some form of outpatient treatment, and 37 facilities (16%) offered some form of residential care. Five facilities offered an opioid treatment program, and 27 physicians and 8 treatment programs were certified to provide buprenorphine for opiate addiction.

In 2006, 50 percent of all facilities (118) received some form of Federal, State, county, or local government funds, and 97 facilities (41%) had agreements or contracts with managed care organizations for the provision of substance abuse treatment services.

Addiction Treatment in Kansas
State treatment data for substance use disorders are derived from two primary sources—an annual one-day census in N-SSATS and annual treatment admissions from the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS). In the 2006 N-SSATS survey, Kansas showed a one-day total of 10,470 residents in treatment, the majority of whom (9,578 or 91%) were in outpatient treatment. Of the total number of clients in treatment on this date, 1,488 (14%) were under the age of 18.

The percent of admissions mentioning particular drugs or alcohol at the time of admission.4 Across the last 14 years, there has been a steady decline in the number of admissions mentioning alcohol and increases in the mentions of cocaine and marijuana. The largest increase is seen in the mentions of methamphetamine, which rose from 3 percent in 1992, to 25 percent in 2006.

Across the years for which TEDS data are available, Kansas has seen a substantial shift in the constellation of problems present at treatment admission. Alcohol-only admissions have declined from 44 percent of all admissions in 1992, to 16 percent in 2006. Concomitantly, drug-only admissions have doubled from 12 percent in 1992, to 27 percent in 2006.

Unmet Need for Addiction Treatment in Kansas
Individual who meets the criteria for abuse of or dependence on illicit drugs or alcohol according to the DSM-IV, but who has not received specialty treatment for that problem in the past year.

Rates of unmet need for drug treatment have generally been among the lowest in the country and rates of unmet need for alcohol treatment have generally been at or above the national rates.

Sources: Facility Data: National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS)–2006 is available at: http://www.dasis.samhsa.gov.

Center for Mental Health Services Uniform Reporting System Output Tables 2006 is available at: http://mentalhealth.samhsa. gov/cmhs/MentalHealthStatistics/URS2006.asp

Substance Abuse Treatment Data: Treatment Episode Data Set–Concatenated File–is available from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive: http://www. icpsr.umich.edu/SDA/SAMHDA.

Mental Health Treatment Data: Center for Mental Health Services Uniform Reporting System Output Tables 2006 is available at: http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/ MentalHealthStatistics/URS2006.asp.

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