Facilities Providing Substance Abuse Treatment in Languages Other than English. The DASIS Report

摘要

In 2000, 18 percent of persons 5 years or older in the United States (roughly 47 million) spoke a language other than English at home: 11 percent spoke Spanishand 7 percent spoke another language. This report looks at substance abuse treatment facilities providing treatment in languages other than English, as reported to the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS). N-SSATS is an annual survey of all facilities in the United States, both public and private, that provide substance abuse treatment. Four groups of facilities were compared: 1) facilities providing services onlyin English (English-only facilities); 2) facilities providing treatment in English and Spanish(Spanish facilities); 3) facilities providing treatment in English, Spanish, and at least one other language (multilingual facilities); and 4) facilities providing treatment in English and at least one language other than Spanish (other language facilities).