Healthcare coverage and service access for low-income adults with substance use disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Although health coverage facilitates service access to adults in the general population, uncertainty exists over the extent to which this relationship extends to low-income adults with substance use disorders.

Methods

The health status and service use patterns of low-income adults with substance use disorders who had continuous, discontinuous, and no past year health coverage were compared using data from the 2015-2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). The NSDUH is a nationally representative survey of the civilian non-institutionalized population.

Results

In the weighted sample (unweighted n = 9243), approximately 65.66% of low-income adults with substance use disorders had continuous coverage, 17.03% had discontinuous coverage, and 17.31%

SUBMITTER: Olfson M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9086121 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature