Journal article
Perception of treatment need among adults with substance use disorders: Longitudinal data from a representative sample of adults in the United States
Drug and alcohol dependence, Vol.209, pp.107895-107895
04/01/2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.107895
PMCID: PMC7418940
PMID: 32078975
Abstract
•Most individuals with substance use disorders do not perceive a need for treatment.•Low perceived treatment need appears to remain relatively stable over time.•Substance use disorder severity predicts change in perceived treatment need.
Most individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) do not seek treatment. Lack of perceived treatment need (PTN) is one contributing factor, but little is known about PTN over time. We estimated whether PTN changed over three years among those with SUDs in the United States and identified select variables, including sociodemographics and symptom burden, that predict malleability vs. stability of PTN.
Data were from Waves 1 (collected 2001–2002) and 2 (collected 2004–2005) of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC); 1695 adults who met DSM criteria for alcohol or non-alcohol SUD at Wave 1 and maintained ≥1 diagnostic symptom at Wave 2 were included.
Most individuals with SUDs (77.2%) did not perceive a need for treatment at Wave 1 baseline. Only about 1 in 8 individuals not perceiving a need for treatment in Wave 1 came to perceive a need in Wave 2 (adjusted odds ratio = 0.18, 99% confidence interval = 0.11–0.29). In contrast, about half the individuals who perceived a need for treatment in Wave 1 no longer did so in Wave 2, despite maintaining ≥1 SUD symptom. Married respondents, and respondents with more SUD symptoms, were more likely to transition from low- to high-PTN status three years later. Respondents with incomes >$35,000 were less likely to transition to high-PTN status three years later.
PTN was more likely to decline than increase over time. Low PTN appears to be stable among adults with SUDs in the United States, presenting a potentially enduring barrier to treatment-seeking.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Perception of treatment need among adults with substance use disorders: Longitudinal data from a representative sample of adults in the United States
- Creators
- Scott J Moeller - Department of Psychiatry, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USAJonathan M Platt - Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USAMelody Wu - Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USARenee D Goodwin - Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Drug and alcohol dependence, Vol.209, pp.107895-107895
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.107895
- PMID
- 32078975
- PMCID
- PMC7418940
- NLM abbreviation
- Drug Alcohol Depend
- ISSN
- 0376-8716
- eISSN
- 1879-0046
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000002, name: National Institutes of Health; DOI: 10.13039/100000026, name: National Institute on Drug Abuse, award: K01DA037452, T32DA031099, R01DA20892
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2020
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984214842702771
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