This report demonstrates the use of National Hospital Care Survey (NHCS) data to describe characteristics of patients experiencing opioid-involved hospital encounters with co-occurring disorders, defined as lifetime diagnoses of both a substance use disorder (SUD) and a selected mental health issue (MHI), that is, diagnosed at any point in the past or during the present encounter.
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