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Teens not getting treatment after OD: Medicaid
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30446
Subject(s) - medicaid , opioid use disorder , bureaucracy , stigma (botany) , psychiatry , work (physics) , psychology , opioid , nursing , medicine , political science , engineering , health care , law , mechanical engineering , receptor , politics
How many studies will it take to show that young people are overdosing because they are not getting medications needed to treat their opioid use disorder (OUD)? The most recent study shows that this is not likely to change unless there is a system in place to link these young people to treatment, but earlier work by the same senior author shows the problem may be even deeper: stigma, bureaucracy, and lack of prescriber availability.