65 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS)

65.1 Organization

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

De-identified, center-level
Collects data from public and private facilities that provide substance abuse treatment
Data are collected on topics including facility operation, services offered (assessment and pre-treatment, pharmacotherapies, testing, transitional, ancillary), detoxification, primary focus (substance abuse, mental health, both, general health, and other), hotline operation, Opioid Treatment Programs and medications dispensed/prescribed, counseling and therapeutic approaches, languages in which treatment is provided, type of treatment provided, number of clients (total and under age 18), number of beds, types of payment accepted, sliding fee scale, special programs offered, facility accreditation and licensure/certification, and managed care agreements.
Information on number of beds designated for treatment is collected only in “odd” years.
One data file per year, some concatenated files are available that combine multiple years

Facility-level survey data

Survey completed by facility
In 2019 survey completion rate was 91%
Data processing includes: consistency checks, standardization of missing values, recodes, calculation of derived variables, checks for undocumented or out-of-range codes.