Chunk #16 — RESULTS — CUMULATIVE LIFETIME PROBABILITY OF SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCE REMISSION — Nicotine dependence remission by racial-ethnic group

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Probability and predictors of remission from life-time nicotine, alcohol, cannabis or cocaine dependence: results from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.

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Among individuals with nicotine dependence, 81.6% of Whites, 89.7% of Blacks, 61.9% of Hispanics, 57.7% of NH/PI, and 38.9% of AI/AN remitted at some time in their lifetime (log rank test= 23.7, p<0.01). Half of nicotine dependence remissions occurred approximately 24 years after dependence onset among Whites, 35 years among Blacks, 16 years among Hispanics, 8 years among NH/PI, and 13 years among AI/AN (Figure 2).