Effects of Medicaid expansion on alcohol and opioid treatment admissions in U.S. racial/ethnic groups.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Excessive drinking and opioid misuse exact a high toll on U.S. lives and differentially affect U.S. racial/ethnic groups in exposure and resultant harms. Increasing access to specialty treatment is an important policy strategy to mitigate this, particularly for lower-income and racial/ethnic minority persons who face distinctive barriers to care. We examined whether the U.S. Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion improved treatment utilization in the overall population and for Black, Latino, and White Americans separately.

Methods

We analyzed total and Medicaid-insured alcohol and opioid treatment admissions per 10,000 adult, state residents using 2010-2016 data from SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set (N = 20 states), with difference-in-difference models accoun

SUBMITTER: Mulia N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9009866 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature