Healio (10/20, Gramigna) reports, “Between 2011 and 2019, fewer than 12% of adolescents with major depression and substance use disorder were treated for both conditions,” researchers concluded after investigating “temporal trends and sociodemographic disparities in co-occurring major depression and SUD treatment” among “136,262 (51.1% boys; 13.8% Black; 23.2% Hispanic; 53.6% white) U.S. adolescents aged 12 to 17 years who participated in the annual cross-sectional surveys of the National Survey on Drug and Health between 2011 and 2019.” The findings of the survey study were published online Oct. 20 in JAMA Network Open.
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— “Few adolescents with depression, substance use disorder treated for both “Joe Gramigna, Healio, October 20, 2021