… health service use, and overdose deaths increased. Our … results from the Addiction Severity
Index for medical conditions, … Our second aim was to determine any differences between the …

… unable to determine their effect on service utilization patterns based on the current methods.
Nonetheless, the present study represents the first formal synthesis of research pertaining to …

… use measures, we did find differences by psychiatric severity. … psychiatric severity, as measured
by the Addiction Severity … in psychiatric severity on the ASI psychiatric severity scale, but …

… with use of mental health services. Baseline functioning and psychiatric distress predicted
… –IV diagnosis; (b) GAF score less than 61; or (c) a BSI global severity score of .61 or higher. …

… Alcohol and other drug abstinence and heavy drinking were measured by the Addiction
Severity Index 37 and by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism evidence-…

… use frequency was measured as proportion of self-reported days of cocaine use over the last
30 days using the Addiction Severity Index… identified a pattern predicting cocaine use in the …

… Family conflict was the Addiction Severity Index’s (ASI) … , predicted a consistently higher
level of psychiatric severity … in one health care system, the Veterans Health Administration, …

… of a holistic approach to health and health care [5]. … was used to determine respondents drug
use frequency in the last … Those who had high addiction severity index by drug use affected …

… to determine the association of having a mental health disorder with health care utilization
and … We measured a comprehensive set of health care costs across a variety of mental health …

… health services utilization data from patients attending the RASP program one year pre- and
post-assessment. … We will estimate the intervention effect for the outcomes using appropriate …