{"id":2054,"date":"2009-07-17T14:41:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2009-07-17T14:41:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T13:41:32","slug":"the-impact-of-substance-dependence-on-the-course-of-depression-comorbid-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/the-impact-of-substance-dependence-on-the-course-of-depression-comorbid-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Substance Dependence on the Course of Depression Comorbid depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color: #000099;\">The Impact of Substance Dependence on the Course of Depression Comorbid depression and substance dependence is very common. The impact of current alcohol and drug dependence on the course of depression, however, has received limited attention. Using data from 8098 noninsitutionalized participants (aged 15 to 54 years) of a national study on psychiatric disorders, researchers assessed how substance dependence (SD) influences the prevalence of major depression.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000099;\">\u2022 Of 319 subjects with both lifetime substance dependence and major depression, half had remitted SD.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Past-year depression was significantly more common in the following:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\">o Subjects with current SD than in subjects with remitted SD (odds ratio 2.9) <\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000099;\">o Subjects with remitted SD than in the total study sample (odds ratio 6.7)<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000099;\"><br \/>\n<em>Comments by Jeffrey Samet, MD, MA, MPH:<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000099;\">Some patients use substances to self-medicate their depressive symptoms. But just as depression adversely affects the course of alcoholism and drug dependence, active substance dependence appears to worsen depression outcomes. Such negative consequences strongly suggest that healthcare providers should assess their patients with depression for comorbid substance dependence and help those affected to stop using alcohol and\/or drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: right;\">Source: Agosti V, Levin FR. The effects of alcohol and drug dependence on the course of depression. Am J Addict. 2006;15(1):71\u201375.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Impact of Substance Dependence on the Course of Depression Comorbid depression and substance dependence is very common. The impact of current alcohol and drug dependence on the course of depression, however, has received limited attention. Using data from 8098 noninsitutionalized participants (aged 15 to 54 years) of a national study on psychiatric disorders, researchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-use-various-effects","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}