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Trends in Substance Abuse Treatment 1998–2008: Increasing Older Adult First-Time Admissions for Illicit Drugs

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry: Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, August 2011
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Title
Trends in Substance Abuse Treatment 1998–2008: Increasing Older Adult First-Time Admissions for Illicit Drugs
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American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry: Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, August 2011
DOI 10.1097/jgp.0b013e31820d942b
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Abstract

To see whether the percentage of older adults entering substance abuse treatment for their first time was increasing and whether there were changes in the use patterns leading to the treatment episode, particularly an increase in illicit drugs.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Unknown 95 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 11%
Researcher 10 10%
Student > Bachelor 8 8%
Student > Postgraduate 6 6%
Other 19 20%
Unknown 29 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 25 26%
Social Sciences 12 13%
Psychology 9 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Other 11 11%
Unknown 28 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 July 2016.
All research outputs
#6,767,907
of 34,357,314 outputs
Outputs from American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry: Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
#846
of 2,759 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#34,167
of 167,379 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry: Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
#7
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,357,314 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 79th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,759 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its peers.
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