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Table 1. Estimated Total Costs for Substance Abuse Treatment and Cost per Admission, by Type of Care: 1997 (inflated to 2002 cost
levels)
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Type of Care
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Annual Treatment Costs
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Annual Admissions
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Cost per Admission
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Non-Hospital Residential (n=48)
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$2,736,348,408
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712,643
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$3,840
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Outpatient Methadone (n=44)
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$967,417,204
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130,472
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$7,415
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Outpatient Non-Methadone (n=222)
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$3,083,179,206
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2,151,694
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$1,433
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Source: ADSS Cost Study, Office of Applied Studies, July 2003.
(Costs updated to 2002 level in Tables 1 and 2.)
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Many people do not enter treatment due to financial constraints. The graph below shows that close to 40% of addicts cannot enter treatment due to the high cost
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Among those who perceived an unmet need for treatment, the most common reasons reported for not receiving treatment were not being ready to stop using the substance and the cost of
treatment
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