A longitudinal cross-sectional analysis of substance use treatment trends for individuals experiencing homelessness, criminal justice involvement, both, or neither - United States, 2006-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals experiencing homelessness or criminal justice involvement (CJI) have higher rates of substance use than the general public. Despite documented barriers to accessing treatment, few studies have compared substance use treatment patterns between these groups.

Methods

This paper uses data from the Treatment Episode Dataset-Admissions between 2006 to 2018 to describe characteristics and trends in substance use treatment admissions indicating homelessness (n=2,524,413), CJI (4,764,750), both (509,902), or neither (8,950,797) in the United States. We used multivariable logistic regression to examine trends independent of demographic differences between groups.

Findings

Between 2006 and 2018, the proportion of treatment admissions related to heroin incr

SUBMITTER: Shearer RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8979492 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature