Association of co-occurring opioid or other substance use disorders with increased healthcare utilization in patients with depression

Abstract Substance use disorders (SUDs) commonly co-occur with mental illness. However, the ongoing addiction crisis raises the question of how opioid use disorder (OUD) impacts healthcare utilization relative to other SUDs. This study examines the utilization patterns of patients with major depress...

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Main Authors: Veer Vekaria, Budhaditya Bose, Sean M. Murphy, Jonathan Avery, George Alexopoulos, Jyotishman Pathak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Translational Psychiatry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01372-0