Addiction Recovery

Physicians Just Don’t Feel Comfortable Treating Addiction

IF NOT YOU, WHO? –

July 18, 2024 –  “Prior research has been describing that physicians don’t feel comfortable actually treating people with substance use disorder because they don’t feel that the setting in which they work has the support to allow them to do it properly.” According to an NIH press release, almost 49 million people in the United States had a substance use disorder in 2022, yet only around 13 million people received treatment.

In the study, Melinda Campopiano von Klimo, MD, a senior medical adviser at JBS International, and colleagues searched several databases like PubMed and Scopus for studies to determine the most cited reasons for physician reluctance to treat addiction.

Overall, 283 articles published from 1960 to Oct. 5, 2021, were included in the review. Alcohol, nicotine and opioids were the most studied substances, whereas screening and treatment were the most studied interventions.

CONTINUE@Healio

C Luke

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