Diverse diagnostic profiles associated with prescription opioid use disorder in a nationwide sample: One crisis, multiple needs.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:The opioid crisis has had devastating effects on individuals and communities, and it has rapidly increased in severity. However, we still lack nationally representative information on the diversity of comorbidity patterns among prescription opioid use disorder (P-OUD), other substance use disorders (SUDs), and psychopathology using the newest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). This impedes planning for multiple aspects of intervention, including society-wide allocation of treatment resources, program design at individual treatment centers, and personalized care to individual patients. METHOD:To address this critical gap in information, we evaluated clinical profiles of American adults via

SUBMITTER: De Nadai AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6764519 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature