Commentary on Bischof et al.: Empirical and conceptual paradigms for studying secondary impacts of a person's substance use.

The article comments on a paper by G. Bischof and colleagues on the secondary health impacts of people living and not living with a person's substance use disorder. Topics mentioned include the two elements that can show societal estimates of the people who are seriously affected with person's substance use disorder, the structural factors related to harm to others, and the effect of alcohol consumption.