A population-wide perspective on the reach of substance use disorders: Parental exposure, diagnostic remission, and current disorders

CONCLUSIONS: This heuristic SUD hierarchy is associated with increasing adversities affecting almost half the US population, although only 15.9% meet the criteria for a current disorder.SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE: Our findings provide a rigorous population-based estimate of the staggering public health impact of SUDs in the United States and suggest that almost half of the US population is either directly or indirectly affected by SUDs.PMID:34921471 | DOI:10.1111/ajad.13246
Source: American Journal on Addictions - Category: Addiction Authors: Source Type: research