Abuse and Dependency in Mississippi

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 or abuse in Mississippi have generally been higher than the national rates across all survey years. This is particularly true for the population of young adults age 18 to 25. Rates of past year drug dependence or abuse, however, have generally been below the nationals rates.

Mississippi's Past Year Dependence on or Abuse of Illicit Drugs or Alcohol 2005-2006



Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities in Mississippi

According to the 2006 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS,3
the number of treatment facilities in Mississippi was 112. Just over half of these facilities (58 of 112) were private nonprofit, and less than 10 percent were private for-profit. The remainder (47 facilities) were owned or operated by Federal, State, or local government(s).

Although facilities may offer more than one modality of care, in 2006 the majority of Mississippi facilities (82 of 112, or 73%) offered some form of outpatient treatment. Another 39 facilities (35%) offered some form of residential treatment. Mississippi had one opioid maintenance program, 69 physicians and six treatment programs offered buprenorphine treatment for opiate
addiction.

In 2006, 65 percent of all facilities (72 of 112) received some form of Federal, State, county, or local government funds, and 34 facilities had agreements or contracts with managed care organizations for the provision of substance abuse treatment services.

Addiction Treatment in Mississippi

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).4 In the 2006 N-SSATS survey, Mississippi showed a one-day total of 5,912 clients in treatment, the majority of whom (4,035 or 68%) were in outpatient treatment. Of the total number of clients in treatment on this date, 282 (5%) were under the age of 18.

the percent of admissions mentioning particular drugs or alcohol at the time of admission.5 Across the last 12 years, there has been a steady decline in the number of admissions mentioning alcohol, and increases in the percent of admissions mentioning methamphetamine and opiates other than heroin.

Across the years for which TEDS data are available, Mississippi has seen a substantial shift in the constellation of problems present at treatment admission. Alcohol-only admissions have declined from 29 percent of all admissions in 1995, to 16 percent in 2005. Concomitantly, drug-only admissions have doubled from 18 percent in 1995, to 37 percent in 2006.

Unmet Need for Addiction Treatment in Mississippi

In Mississippi, rates of unmet need for drug treatment have generally been below the national rate, with the exception of the rates for those age 26 and older.

Rates of unmet need for alcohol treatment, however, have consistently been among the lowest in the country for all age groups and across all survey years.

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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