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U.S. task force doesn't recommend for or against primary care prevention
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30505
Subject(s) - task force , psychological intervention , medicine , primary care , medical prescription , statement (logic) , alternative medicine , family medicine , task (project management) , illicit drug , psychiatry , drug , nursing , public administration , pathology , political science , law , management , economics
In its most recent recommendation, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) last week said there is not enough evidence to recommend either for or against clinicians providing counseling to prevent drug use in young people. In the final recommendation statement, “Primary Care–Based Interventions to Prevent Illicit Drug Use in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement,” published in the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA ), the task force concluded that “the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of primary care–based behavioral counseling interventions to prevent illicit drug use, including nonmedical use of prescription drugs, in children, adolescents, and young adults.”