Association of Tobacco Dependence Treatment Coverage Expansion With Smoking Behaviors Among Medicaid Beneficiaries Living With Substance Use Disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Many U.S. states expanded the generosity of Medicaid insurance coverage of tobacco dependence treatment over the last fifteen years, but little is known about how coverage impacts cigarette smoking, especially for individuals with substance use disorder.

Methods

Data are from the 2009 to 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health and include Medicaid beneficiaries 18-64 years old with past year substance use disorder who smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime. Outcomes were smoking cessation, nicotine dependence, and number of cigarettes smoked per month. Difference-in-differences models were estimated for smoking behavior by state and year of comprehensive tobacco dependence treatment coverage, estimating multivariable linear probability models, adju

SUBMITTER: Cook BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11830533 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature