Measuring social integration, treatment, and mortality after substance use treatment: methodological elaborations in a 20-year follow-up study

Table 2 Service users’ substance use treatment (SUT) at follow-up (Y₂₀; 2016–2020), in total and by substance dependence ^a at baseline 2000–2002, register data, column percentages.^b

Situation at 20-year follow-up (Y₂₀)	Only alcohol dependence n = 308	Only drug dependence n = 95	Alcohol and drug dependence n = 42	No AOD dependence ^c n = 81	Sig. level Chi²-test	Total alive in 2016–2020 n = 721
No SUT for SUD
No in- or outpatient alcohol or drug treatment	15.2	13.9	21.7	38.3	0.001	18.4 ^d
Treatment, in total	73.6	81.7	72.6	39.6	0.001	73.0
Outpatient for alcohol/drug diagnosis…without AOD-related medication	79.8	70.2	70.7	51.9	0.001	71.9
…with alcohol-related medication	55.2	17.0	36.4	17.6	0.001	34.1
…with drug-related medication– OAT	0.9	39.7	20.0	2.9	0.001	18.5
Inpatient care for alcohol/drug diagnosis, and/or compulsory care	50.8	42.9	56.6	34.2	0.006	47.0
Co-morbidity: Inpatient with AOD diagnosis and psychiatric diagnosis	28.8	27.7	22.1	25.0	ns	27.0

^a Dependence diagnoses based on ICD-10 criteria (3+), as estimated by the CIDI structured interview at baseline
^b Column percentage do not add to 100% due to overlapping treatment episodes
^c No AOD dependence refers to individuals who did not meet diagnostic criteria for alcohol or drug dependence (see footnote a)
^d No SUT and SUT in total do not add to 100% due to differences in the concepts (see Additional file S2)

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