Health Affairs January 19, 2022
The United States is facing an unprecedented need for mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services that has been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 1 million Americans lost their lives to drugs, alcohol, or suicide between 2010 and 2019, and those numbers have been increasing during the current decade. After years of overdose deaths predominantly increasing among Whites, deaths have been increasing more sharply among Black people.
The sliver of good news amidst this loss of life is that there increasingly are highly effective treatment options available for people with SUD. Medications are available to treat opioid and alcohol use disorders. Therapeutic approaches work for many people with SUD, especially when addiction is treated as the chronic,...
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