Psychiatric News (1/27) reported, “Substance use disorders (SUDs) cost employer-sponsored health insurance plans $35.3 billion in the United States in 2018,” with “alcohol use disorder…the most costly at $10.2 billion a year, followed by opioid use disorder at $7.3 billion a year,” CDC researchers concluded after examining insurance data on “the medical costs of 210,225 people who had an SUD diagnosis with those of 1,049,539 people who did not have an SUD diagnosis.” The findings were published online Jan. 24 in JAMA Network Open.
Related Links:
— “Substance Use Disorders Cost Employer Health Insurance $35 Billion in 2018, Psychiatric News, January 27, 2023