Addiction Medicine: Closing the Gap between Science and Practice

The importance of attending to co-occurring conditions in this population is highlighted by a study of veterans with co-occurrin ...

help to increase treatment engagement and retention.^129 As is true in the general population, evidence-based pharmaceutical int ...

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Chapter VII The Addiction Treatment Gap In spite of the facts that 15.9 percent of the U.S. population ages 12 and older report ...

Of those whose addiction involves nicotine, the only data available are for persons ages 18 and older who have tried to quit smo ...

77.2 73.2 71.2 10.9 Hypertension¹ Diabetes² Major Depression³ Addiction³ (excluding Nicotine*) P E R C E N T Figure 7.A Individu ...

18.7M 7.9M 1.7M 1.6M 3.4M 1.0M Alcohol Other Drugs Multiple Substances M I L L I O N S Figure 7.B The Treatment Gap: Need for Ad ...

Variations in the Treatment Gap by Key Patient Characteristics .............................. The addiction treatment gap is sub ...

finding that black and Hispanic smokers are less likely than white smokers to use smoking cessation interventions such as nicoti ...

screened positive for a possible addiction involving alcohol.* However, of those who screened positive for risky alcohol use, on ...

Private 55.6% ($1.4 T) Public 44.4% ($1.1 T) Medical Care Private 20.8% ($5.8 B) Public 79.2% ($22.2 B) Addiction Treatment Sour ...

Other State & Local 45.3% ($10.1B) Medicaid 26.3% ($5.9B) Other Federal 19.9% ($4.4B) Medicare 8.5% ($1.9B) Figure 7.E Compo ...

Specialty Mental Health Centers 8.8% ($2.5B) Specialty Addiction Centers 43.4% ($12.2B) Specialty Units in General Hospitals 12. ...

38.6 29.0 22.4 7.9 55.6 Alcohol Illicit Drugs Other Than Marijuana Marijuana Prescription Drugs Multiple Substances P E R C E N ...

0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 70.0 2002 2004 2006 2008 2009 P E R C E N T Source: CASA Columbia analysis of The Treatment Ep ...

0.6 1.4 5.7 10.6 12.1 25.3 44.3 Employers Schools Health Care Providers Addiction Treatment Providers Community Sources Individu ...

63.3 14.6 11.9 10.2 Non- Intensive/Non- Residential Services Intensive Non- Residential Services Short-Term Residential Services ...

14.8 11.4 73.8 54.8 45.5 39.1 Short-Term Residential Services Longer-Term Residential Services Non-Residential Services P E R C ...

Of those discharges that did not represent a completed treatment episode, 46.6 percent dropped out of treatment, 25.9 percent we ...

 intensive outpatient (25.9 percent vs. 15.1 percent),  short-term residential (21.6 percent vs. 14.1 percent), and  longer-t ...