Differences in Drug Treatment Services Based on Profit Status

The goal of this article is to examine whether profit status affects the provision of seven "core" drug treatment services and nine "auxiliary" treatment services. Data on the type of services provided by 8,606 treatment providers obtained from the National Survey of Substance Ab...

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Published in:Journal of psychoactive drugs 2006-09, Vol.38 (3), p.219-228
Main Author: Montoya, Isaac D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Addictive behaviors
Adolescent
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Aged
Algorithms
Biological and medical sciences
Case management
Changes
Child, Preschool
Counseling
Data Collection
Drug addiction
Drug therapy
drug treatment
Ethnic Groups
Female
Health education
Health services
Health Status
Humans
Insurance, Health
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Nonprofit hospitals
Organizational structure
Ownership - economics
Pharmacology. Drug treatments
profit status
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
sample bias
Socioeconomic Factors
Studies
Substance abuse treatment
Substance Abuse Treatment Centers - economics
Substance Abuse Treatment Centers - organization & administration
Substance-Related Disorders - economics
Substance-Related Disorders - therapy
Toxicology
treatment providers
treatment services
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Summary:The goal of this article is to examine whether profit status affects the provision of seven "core" drug treatment services and nine "auxiliary" treatment services. Data on the type of services provided by 8,606 treatment providers obtained from the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) collected by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in 2000 were used for this study. The types of services offered by the providers were modeled to be a function of the drug treatment providers' (DTP) profit status, DTP organizational and financial characteristics, staff's characteristics, clients' characteristics, and regional variables. A total of 16 logistic regressions were estimated. For-profit DTPs were found to be more likely to offer only two core services and were less likely to offer eight auxiliary services. However, after correcting for sample selection bias many differences in the supply of services between for profit and nonprofit providers disappeared.
ISSN:0279-1072
2159-9777
DOI:10.1080/02791072.2006.10399847