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OTPs can be source of needed support for office‐based treatment providers
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32166
Subject(s) - specialty , opioid use disorder , health care , nursing , focus (optics) , narcotic antagonists , medicine , opioid , public relations , family medicine , political science , (+) naloxone , physics , receptor , optics , law
The kind of collaboration between generalist physicians and specialty treatment that has become second nature in addressing chronic conditions such as diabetes remains largely absent in the health care community's response to opioid use disorders. The result, say behavioral health experts interviewed by ADAW , often can be incomplete or inappropriate care in the office‐based practices that national leaders increasingly see as the focus of the treatment response to the opioid crisis.