Caution is necessary when estimating treatment need for opioid use disorder using national surveys

ED Nesoff, SS Martins… - American Journal of …, 2022 - ajph.aphapublications.org
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General population surveys are a leading source to estimate trends in drug use behaviors;
however, caution should be used when the outcome of interest may be more prevalent
among hard-to-reach or undersampled populations. Estimates of opioid use disorder (OUD)
and treatment need using such national samples may not be accurate. A new study by Saini
et al.(p. 284) in this issue of AJPH attempts to disentangle two problems often conflated in
studies of OUD treatment access:(1) the OUD treatment gap, defined in the National Survey …
General population surveys are a leading source to estimate trends in drug use behaviors; however, caution should be used when the outcome of interest may be more prevalent among hard-to-reach or undersampled populations. Estimates of opioid use disorder (OUD) and treatment need using such national samples may not be accurate.
A new study by Saini et al.(p. 284) in this issue of AJPH attempts to disentangle two problems often conflated in studies of OUD treatment access:(1) the OUD treatment gap, defined in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) as having a probable
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