This metadata set is nationally mandated for collection and reporting.

Publicly funded government and non-government agencies providing alcohol and/or drug treatment services. Including community-based ambulatory services and outpatient services.

The following services are currently not included in the coverage:

• services based in prisons and other correctional institutions;
• agencies that provide primarily accommodation or overnight stays such as 'sobering-up shelters' and 'half-way houses';
• agencies that provide services concerned primarily with health promotion;
• needle and syringe programs;
• agencies whose sole function is to provide prescribing and/or dosing of methadone; and
• acute care and psychiatric hospitals, or alcohol and drug treatment units that report to the admitted patient care National Minimum Data Set and do not provide treatment to non-admitted patients.

Clients who are on a methadone maintenance program may be included in the collection where they also receive other types of treatment.