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NASEM on barriers to services for OUDs and infectious diseases
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32613
Subject(s) - economic shortage , workforce , stigma (botany) , medicine , criminology , business , political science , psychiatry , psychology , law , government (linguistics) , linguistics , philosophy
Workforce shortages, stigma, financial barriers and policy obstacles are standing in the way of integrating services for opioid use disorder (OUD) and infectious diseases, even though these two epidemics are co‐occurring and related, according to a report issued last month by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).