Pediatricians were less likely to provide counseling and more likely to refer patients to care off-site for opioid use than for alcohol abuse, a new survey found.
Scott E. Hadland, MD, MPH, with the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Mass General for Children in Boston, and colleagues detailed the extent of the treatment gap and barriers to prescribing and caring for youth with OUD in primary care in a research letter published February 26 inDr Hadland's team mailed 1681 US pediatricians a survey, and the response rate was 43.0%. Researchers included in the sample 474 primary care pediatricians who care for adolescents.
Dr Levy said she considers substance use disorders the same way she considers other chronic conditions: Most patients can be treated in primary care. "Specialty care and higher levels of care need to be available for patients who are most complicated and/or having a flare of their condition."
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