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Monday, November 17, 2008

Utah County Treatment Admissions

Review Utah County Division of Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions data at - http://sites.google.com/site/utahcountycoalition/data-collection-workgroup). Answer the following questions:
  1. Overall, how do geographic areas within your county compare on the consequence data rates? Do any stand out as high or low? Discuss differences.
  2. Do you think the data accurately reflect the related problems in the community? Why or why not?
  3. What does the trend data available for the consequences suggest in the different geographic areas? Is the problem increasing, decreasing, or staying the same? Discuss differences and patterns.
  4. Do the consequences in some geographic areas appear to be more of a problem than in others? Why?
  5. Are there differences in patterns of consequences between age groups?
  6. Are there differences in patters of consequence between gender?
  7. Are there differences in patterns of consequences between age and gender and location?
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Marianne S. said...

Overall, how do geographic areas within your county compare on the consequence data rates? Do any stand out as high or low?

ALCOHOL: 1-4th place it treatment admits are cities in the south part of the county--Springville, Spanish Fork, Payson and Santaquin.

Narcotics: Same as above

2.Do you think data accurately reflect related problems in the community? Not sure.

3. What does the trend data available for the consequences suggest in the different geographic areas? Problem increasing, decreasing, or staying the same?

ALCOHOL: Very low treatment admit numbers for 2006 with Provo and Orem leading. 2008 showed significant increases for all larger cities in the county.

NARCOTICS: Trend shows decrease from 2006-2008 in treatment admits. 2007 data dropped so low, I question its validity.

4. Do the consequences in some geographic areas appear to be more of a problem than in others?

ALCOHOL & NARCOTICS: All rankings from 1-5 (highest) for treatment admissions occur in cities of Springville, Spanish Fork, Payson and Santaquin--the same as in question #1. One could ask if they have more of a problem than the other cities or if more people recognize they have a problem and seek treatment.

5. Are there differnces in patterns of consequences between age groups?

Ages 25-29 rank highest for treatment admits for both ALCOHOL and NARCOTICS. 30-34 ranks second for both with ages 20-24 taking 3rd for narcotics. Alcohol users in 3rd place are from 40-44. Ages 15 and under and 50+ had the lowest rankings.

6. Are there differences in patterns of consequence between gender?
ALCOHOL: Men have about double the treatment admits than women in all age groups except for 50-59, when women admits are higher.

NARCOTICS: The number of males and females being admitted to treatment are much closer that with alcohol. There are more men from ages 25-29. From 29-54 admits decline but numbers among female and males are almost equal.

7. Are there differences in patterns of consequences between age, gender, and location?

ALCOHOL: Men lead in all cities with Provo and Orem having at least triple the number of admits compared to the next highest cities.

NARCOTICS: Unlike alcohol, numbers of treatment admits are closer between men and women. Orem and Provo have the highest numbers of admits for the county with women only 10-20 admits behind. In 7 of the smaller cities, women have more admits than men.

December 8, 2008 at 8:57 PM

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