The Substance Abuse Prevention Planning and Epidemiology Tool (SAPPET) is an online data tool designed to help SAMHSA-funded prevention grantees access and use data to guide their prevention planning efforts. The effectiveness of SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) begins with a clear understanding of community needs. SAPPET offers practitioners immediate access to data that can help them understand and prioritize the substance-related problems their communities face.
 
SAPPET contains 151 behavioral health key indicators from 11 national data sources, and makes these data available by state. Indicators are categorized into substance-related consequences, consumption patterns, and associated risk and protective factors. For a detailed overview of SAPPET, click here.
 
SAMHSA defines behavioral health as a state of mental/emotional being and/or choices and actions that affect wellness¹. Behavioral health problems include substance abuse or misuse, alcohol and drug addiction, serious psychological distress, suicide, and mental and substance use disorders. SAPPET focuses on a subset of these problems, specifically, substance-related outcomes and associated risk and protective factors. Some of the risk and protective factors included in this tool are also associated with mental health outcomes.
 

What's New on SAPPET?

Over the past few months, the CAPT has made a number of exciting enhancements to SAPPET. These include the following:

• Updates to most of the datasets to include the latest indicator estimates from their respective sources. To see the list of datasets that have been updated on SAPPET, click here.
• The SAPPET Raw Data Analysis Engine (SAPPET-RD), a new feature that lets users generate substance abuse estimates from select SAPPET raw datasets.
• A new Tribal Data section that includes important contextual information on Native American/Alaskan Native populations, and access to relevant national-level indicators available from SAPPET data sources.
• New resources and tools under the Additional Resources tab to support the collection, use, and dissemination of epidemiological data throughout the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) process.

 

What's Inside*

View Data—View indicator prevalence and trend graphs for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Depending on data availability, customize graphs to compare state and national trends, trends across states, and counties within states.
 
Tribal Data—View national-level indicator prevalence and trends for Native American/Alaskan Native populations.
 
Analyze Data—Analyze select raw datasets using SAPPET's Raw Data Analysis Engine (SAPPET-RD) to generate desired cross-tabs, tables, maps, and trends.
 
Download Data—Download raw datasets by desired state or data source for further analysis. Data can be downloaded in SAS or CSV format.
 
Data Sources—Review brief descriptions of the 11 SAPPET data sources, including data collection methods and links to the data source.
 
Additional Resources—Explore a variety of resources and tools to support prevention planning and evaluation.
 
FAQs—Learn more about the SAPPET tool and how it functions, including how to download SAPPET graphs into external software programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel.
 
References:
 

1. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Leading Change: A Plan for SAMHSA's Roles and Actions 2011-2014. HHS Publication No. (SMA) 11-4629. Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2011.

 
^*Majority of SAPPET indicator estimates were updated in October 2015. Users will be notified as new data becomes available.