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May 11, 2004
 Older Adults in
Substance Abuse Treatment: 2001
This report examines
substance abuse treatment admissions aged 55 or older in 2001, and
compares them with younger admissions. In 2001, there were 58,000
admissions aged 55 or older among the 1.7 million substance abuse
treatment admissions in the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS).
While the number of admissions aged 55 or older has increased over
the years, the proportion of admissions aged 55 or older has
remained stable at 3 percent of all admissions.
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