Patterns of Mental Health Service Utilization and Substance Use Among Adults, 2000 and 2001

Figure 3.5 is a bar chart comparing the percentages of mental health treatment types received by full-time employees with those received by adults not in the labor force. The chart shows that among full-time employees, 63.0 percent received outpatient only treatment, 48.7 percent received outpatient and medication only treatment, 47.4 percent received medication only, and 23.8 percent received inpatient treatment. Among adults who were not in the labor force, 59.2 percent received inpatient treatment, 38.7 percent received medication only, 33.8 percent received outpatient and medication treatment, and 16.7 percent received outpatient only treatment in the past year.

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This page was last updated on June 16, 2008.

SAMHSA, an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services, is the Federal Government's lead agency for improving the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment, and mental health services in the United States.