Cross-national patterns of substance use disorder treatment and associations with mental disorder comorbidity in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys.
Meredith G HarrisChrianna BharatMeyer D GlantzNancy A SampsonAli Al-HamzawiJordi AlonsoRonny BruffaertsJosé Miguel Caldas de AlmeidaAlfredo H CiaGiovanni de GirolamoSilvia FlorescuOye GurejeJosep Maria HaroHristo HinkovElie G KaramGeorges KaramSing LeeJean-Pierre LépineDaphna LevinsonVictor MakanjuolaJohn G McGrathZeina MneimnehFernando Navarro-MateuMarina PiazzaJosé Posada-VillaCharlene RapseyHisateru TachimoriMargreet Ten HaveYolanda TorresMaria Carmen VianaSomnath ChatterjiAlan M ZaslavskyRonald C KesslerLouisa Degenhardtnull nullPublished in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) (2019)
Few people with past-year substance use disorders receive adequate 12-month substance use disorder treatment, even when comorbid with a mental disorder. This is largely due to the low proportion of people receiving any substance use disorder treatment, as the proportion of patients whose treatment is at least minimally adequate is high.