Psychiatric News (11/2) reports, “Youth who survive a firearm injury are significantly more likely to access mental health services – including services for substance use disorders – within one year of the injury than are children who do not have a firearm injury,” investigators concluded in a study that “used commercial insurance and Medicaid claims databases to examine use of mental health and substance use treatment among 2,127 children and adolescents (average age 13.5 years) who sustained firearm injuries between January 2016 and the end of December 2017, and an equal number of age-matched youth who had not had a firearm injury.” The findings were published online Nov. 2 in JAMA Surgery.
Related Links:
— “Youth More Likely to Access Mental Health, Substance Use Treatment Following a Firearm Injury, Psychiatric News, November 2, 2022