Erschienen in:
01.12.2008 | Update
Update in Addiction Medicine for the Primary Care Clinician
verfasst von:
Adam J. Gordon, David A. Fiellin, Peter D. Friedmann, Marc N. Gourevitch, Kevin L. Kraemer, Julia H. Arnsten, Richard Saitz, for the Society of General Internal Medicine’s Substance Abuse Interest Group
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 12/2008
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Excerpt
The United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends that primary care clinicians assume a major role in screening, identification, treatment, and referral to treatment of unhealthy alcohol and other drug (AOD) use—the spectrum from use that risks health consequences to AOD disorders (abuse and dependence)—in generalist settings.
1 In the United States, nicotine dependence, alcohol use, and drug use are the first, third, and ninth leading causes, respectively, of preventable deaths.
2 Despite the harmful effects of addiction and improved options for office-based treatments and referral, not all primary care clinicians routinely address AOD use in their patients. …