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Peer-reviewedCC BY-NC-NDPreventive medicine

The Association between Eviction Moratorium and Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment in the United States

  • Alene Kennedy-Hendricks1,2,3
  • Yimin Ge1,2
  • Kathryn M Leifheit4
  • Iraj Qureshi1,2
  • Sabriya Linton2,3
  • Michael Fingerhood2,3,5
  • Leah Robinson1,2
  • Craig Evan Pollack1,5,6
  • Matthew D. Eisenberg1,2,3
6 affiliations
  1. 1Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
  2. 2Johns Hopkins Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy, Baltimore, MD
  3. 3Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
  4. 4Department of Health Policy & Management, University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
  5. 5Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
  6. 6Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Alcohol-related morbidity and mortality have risen in recent years while the U.S. confronts a housing affordability crisis. This quasi-experimental event study assessed the association between the end of the federal eviction moratorium and receipt of treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD) among U.S. residents. METHODS: Using national claims data for June-December 2021, this study calculated state-week measures of AUD treatment. Event study models using Poisson regression estimated how the number of individuals receiving outpatient AUD treatment, prescription medication for AUD, and outpatient treatment for a behavioral health disorder with co-occurring AUD changed in the weeks before and after the federal eviction moratorium expiration in states where evictions resumed (treatment states) compared to states maintaining eviction moratoria (comparison states). RESULTS: The state-weekly average number of individuals receiving outpatient AUD treatment was 9.95% greater (Confidence Interval (CI): 2.41%, 18.05%), with about 2440 more individuals receiving an outpatient AUD visit per week, than expected in the 5-16 weeks following the expiration of the federal moratorium in states where evictions resumed. CONCLUSIONS: Resumption of evictions was associated with greater than expected rates of outpatient AUD treatment. Findings underscore the importance of considering the connection between housing policy and AUD treatment patterns.

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@article{kennedyhendricks2026association,
  title = {{The Association between Eviction Moratorium and Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment in the United States}},
  author = {Alene Kennedy-Hendricks and Yimin Ge and Kathryn M Leifheit and Iraj Qureshi and Sabriya Linton and Michael Fingerhood and Leah Robinson and Craig Evan Pollack and Matthew D. Eisenberg},
  journal = {Preventive medicine},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.1016/j.ypmed.2026.108674},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2026.108674},
  note = {CC BY-NC-ND},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - The Association between Eviction Moratorium and Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment in the United States
AU  - Alene Kennedy-Hendricks
AU  - Yimin Ge
AU  - Kathryn M Leifheit
AU  - Iraj Qureshi
AU  - Sabriya Linton
AU  - Michael Fingerhood
AU  - Leah Robinson
AU  - Craig Evan Pollack
AU  - Matthew D. Eisenberg
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/02
JO  - Preventive medicine
DO  - 10.1016/j.ypmed.2026.108674
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2026.108674
AB  - OBJECTIVE: Alcohol-related morbidity and mortality have risen in recent years while the U.S. confronts a housing affordability crisis. This quasi-experimental event study assessed the association between the end of the federal eviction moratorium and receipt of treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD) among U.S. residents. METHODS: Using national claims data for June-December 2021, this study calculated state-week measures of AUD treatment. Event study models using Poisson regression estimated how the number of individuals receiving outpatient AUD treatment, prescription medication for AUD, and outpatient treatment for a behavioral health disorder with co-occurring AUD changed in the weeks before and after the federal eviction moratorium expiration in states where evictions resumed (treatment states) compared to states maintaining eviction moratoria (comparison states). RESULTS: The state-weekly average number of individuals receiving outpatient AUD treatment was 9.95% greater (Confidence Interval (CI): 2.41%, 18.05%), with about 2440 more individuals receiving an outpatient AUD visit per week, than expected in the 5-16 weeks following the expiration of the federal moratorium in states where evictions resumed. CONCLUSIONS: Resumption of evictions was associated with greater than expected rates of outpatient AUD treatment. Findings underscore the importance of considering the connection between housing policy and AUD treatment patterns.
SN  - 0091-7435
SN  - 1096-0260
ER  -