Stimulant Use Disorder Diagnoses in Adolescent and Young Adult Medicaid Enrollees.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There has been a national increase in fatal and nonfatal overdoses involving stimulants, and 4.5 million US individuals meet criteria for stimulant use disorder (UD), with the highest prevalence in young adults. However, limited information exists on trends in diagnosed stimulant UD.

Objective

To estimate trends in the proportion of adolescent and young adult Medicaid enrollees diagnosed with a stimulant UD from 2001 to 2020.

Design, setting, and participants

A repeated cross-sectional study (2001-2020) was conducted using administrative health care claims data from Medicaid (public insurance program in US). Publicly insured adolescents (aged 13-17 years) and young adults (aged 18-24 or 25-29 years) from 42 US states were included. Data were analyzed from J

SUBMITTER: Bushnell G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12529327 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature