Risk of substance use disorder among patients with autism

JAMA PEDIATRICS
Date: 4-JAN-2021

What The Study Did: Researchers used health insurance data from Taiwan to investigate the risk of substance use disorder among patients with autism spectrum disorder and its associations with risk of death.

Authors: Chih-Sung Liang, M.D., of the National Defense Medical Center, and Mu-Hong Chen, M.D., Ph.D., of the Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, are the corresponding authors.

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(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.5371)

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