Measuring social integration, treatment, and mortality after substance use treatment: methodological elaborations in a 20-year follow-up study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) disorders cause substantial harm. Effective Substance Use Treatment (SUT) exists, but long-term outcomes remain inconclusive. This study used a 20-year prospective follow-up of 1248 service users entering SUT in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2000-2002 to elaborate on how different dimensions of long-term outcomes may be measured by register-based indicators. Baseline characteristics and attrition bias were explicated, and register-based outcomes were examined.

Results

Register-based indicators are valuable, but they also have inherent limitations such as the lack of substance use data and inability to differentiate between un/met treatment needs and access. Significant variations in long-term outcomes were evident depending on which register-ba

SUBMITTER: Sohlberg T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11749105 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature