Psychiatric News (10/6) reports, “People who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and have a substance use disorder (SUD) appear to be at higher risk for breakthrough infections than people without an SUD,” investigators concluded after analyzing “de-identified data from electronic health records for 30,183 fully vaccinated patients with history of SUD and 549,189 patients without SUD between December 2020 and August 2021 – a period that included the Delta variant outbreak.” The study revealed that “the risk of breakthrough infection for people with SUDs ranged from 6.8% for tobacco use disorder to 7.8% for cannabis use disorder,” while “the risk of breakthrough infections in vaccinated people without an SUD was 3.6%.” The findings were published online Oct. 5 in the journal World Psychiatry.
Related Links:
— “Patients With SUDs Have Higher Risk of Breakthrough COVID-19 Infection, Psychiatric News, October 6, 2021