The Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set (AODTS NMDS) contains information about alcohol and other drug treatment services; the clients who use these services; the type of issues for which treatment is sought and the types of treatment provided. In 2020-2021, 106 NGO AODTS establishments across Queensland submitted data to the AODTS NMDS through QNADA, including statewide residential treatment services.
The 2020-2021 submission included 21,548 closed treatment episodes to 14,939 clients aged 10+, a small increase from 21,453 episodes in 2019-20. Service responses to COVID-19 impacted treatment delivery setting in 2020. This collection year, ‘other’ delivery setting usually referred to a phone setting.
Counselling was the most accessed treatment type (50%) followed by rehabilitation (16%), and support and case management (15%). More than half of episodes were provided to male clients (57%) and around three-fourths of clients were aged 25 and over. Amphetamines remains the most common principal drug of concern for which clients sought treatment (37%), followed by Alcohols (35%) and Cannabinoids (19%).
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