TBI & Healthcare Professionals Resources

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Rationale for Tennessee Brighter Future’s Infographic Series on the Intersection of Brain Injury with Other Systems of Support

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Substance Use Disorder Resources

Intersectionality with Brain Injury:
After brain injury, 70-80% are discharged from healthcare facilities with a prescription for opioids.
People with traumatic brain injury are ten times more likely to die of accidental overdose, in larger part because of cognitive and behavioral changes.
Within 8-12 months after injury, 10-20% will develop a substance use problem and that number will grow over time.
Approximately half of people receiving substance use treatment have at least one brain injury.
As high as 75% of people seeking both mental health and substance use treatment also have a brain injury.
Twenty-five percent of people entering brain injury rehabilitation are there as a result of drugs or alcohol and being intoxicated at the time of injury makes it harder for the brain to heal.
Those with childhood TBI are more likely to use drugs and alcohol as adults.
For every overdose death, there are approximately fifty overdose survivors, 90% of whom become impaired because of insufficient oxygen to the brain.