ArticleJournal of addiction medicine
Medical Burden of Disease Among Individuals in Recovery From Alcohol and Other Drug Problems in the United States: Findings From the National Recovery Survey.
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- Community-involved economic evaluation and development of a cost-effectiveness calculator for two peer-driven substance use interventions.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Abstinence versus moderation recovery pathways following resolution of a substance use problem: Prevalence, predictors, and relationship to psychosocial well-being in a U.S. national sample.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2022Article
- Closing the brain-heart loop: Towards more holistic models of addiction and addiction recovery.Addiction biology · 2022Review
- Multidimensional Quality of Life Across the Spectrum of Alcohol Use Behavior.Psychiatric research and clinical practice · 2022Article
- Addiction-Associated Genetic Variants Implicate Brain Cell Type- and Region-Specific Cis-Regulatory Elements in Addiction Neurobiology.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Reasons to be cheerful: Personal, civic, and economic achievements after resolving an alcohol or drug problem in the United States population.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2021Article
- From working on recovery to working in recovery: Employment status among a nationally representative U.S. sample of individuals who have resolved a significant alcohol or other drug problem.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2020Article
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objectivesThe medical sequalae of alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems exact a prodigious personal and societal cost, but little is known about the specific prevalence of such medical problems, and their relationship to quality of life and indices of well-being among those recovering from problematic AOD use. To better characterize the lifetime physical disease burden, this study investigated the prevalence of medical conditions commonly caused or exacerbated by excessive and chronic AOD exposure in a nationally representative sample of US adults in AOD problem recovery. Comparisons were made to the general US population. Demographic and clinical correlates of disease prevalence were also investigated along with the relationship between distinct medical conditions and indices of quality of life/well-being.
methodsCross-sectional nationally representative survey of the US adult population who report resolving an AOD problem (n = 2002). Weighted lifetime prevalence of common medical conditions were estimated and compared to the US population. Demographic and clinical correlates of medical conditions, and also overall disease burden, were estimated using logistic regression.
resultsRelative to the general population, prevalence of hepatitis C, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, and diabetes were elevated. Likelihood of having a lifetime diagnosis of a specific disease was related to primary substance used and sex. Quality of life was lower among those with physical disease histories relative to those without.
conclusionsFindings highlight the increased medical burden associated with AOD problems, and speak to the need for earlier and more sustained intervention for AOD problems, greater integration of addiction treatment and primary health care, and longitudinal research to explore the complex, dynamic relationships between AOD use and physical disease.
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