ReviewHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Unemployment and Substance Use: An Updated Review of Studies from North America and Europe.
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Associations Between Employment and Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review of Reviews.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Pooled it
- From randomised trial to national implementation: employment outcomes from individual placement and support in english alcohol and drug treatment services.International journal of public health · 2026Trial
- Harm reduction-focused behavioral activation for people who inject drugs: Mixed methods outcomes from a pilot open trial.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Trial
- Results from a Nationwide Evaluation Study of Labor Market-Integrative Health Promotion for the Unemployed: Impact of the JOBS Program Germany.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- Unemployment & opioid use disorder - socio-medical assessment results by the Medical Service of the German Federal Employment Agency.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2026Article
- Comparative effectiveness of social-contextual treatments for improving substance-related problems among Black adults: An individual-level data synthesis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Explainable AI for public health surveillance: investigating the persistent crisis of intentional injury mortality (suicide and homicide) in the Americas.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Substance use and treatment utilization patterns of working-age American men who were not in employment, education, or training (NEET) during the COVID-19 pandemic.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2026Article
- [Prevalence and socio-medical performance among unemployed people in Germany - Analysis of data of the Medical Service of the Federal Employment Agency].Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, medizinische Psychologie · 2026Article
- Use of pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorders and the risk of unemployment: a cohort study of 77 503 workers in Sweden.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2026Article
- [Regional characteristics of diagnoses of unemployed people under socio-medical assessments by the Medical Service of the Federal Employment Agency].Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)) · 2026Article
- Drug use vs. abstinence after incarceration: associations with competing psychosocial needs and their relevance to the importance of treatment.Health & justice · 2026Article
- Substance use and treatment utilization patterns of working-age American men who were not in employment, education, or training (NEET) during the COVID-19 pandemic.Research square · 2026Article
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- The association between night shift work and elevated risk of smoking use among ride-hailing drivers: findings from a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The Long Reach of Unemployment: Sensitizing or Inoculating Employee Reactions to Job Insecurity?Journal of business and psychology · 2026Article
- Effective adaptations in Individual Placement and Support delivery: lessons from the drug and alcohol treatment context.International journal of public health · 2026Article
- Adverse childhood experiences impact unemployment and inability to work among adults in the United States.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Clients' views and experiences of individual placement and support: an employment program for people in treatment for substance use.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Since the industrial revolution, the relationship between unemployment and psychiatric disorders has been a subject of high interest. Currently, regarding the correlation between unemployment and substance-use disorders (SUDs), only older, often isolated and fragmented research results are available in the literature. This review was based on an extensive literature search of the European and North American literature in most relevant databases for "unemployment" and "substance use" related to "drugs", "alcohol", "nicotine", and "tobacco" between November 2022 and January 2023, according to the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis) guidelines. A total of 59,117 papers were identified, of which only 33 articles were identified as relevant to the research objective. The literature showed significantly higher prevalence rates of SUDs involving divergent psychotropic substances among unemployed people. Unemployment was found to be a risk factor for SUD, and vice versa. However, the correlation between unemployment and relapses or smoking cessation was inconsistent. In addition, there appeared to be a mild effect of business cycles on SUD. The results showed significant multifaceted correlations between unemployment and SUD, indicating that prevention and early intervention are required to prevent harmful psychosocial consequences, such as social disintegration and severe psychiatric disorders.
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