Care For Patients With Opioid Use Disorders

In her Narrative Matters essay (Dec 2017), Jessica Gregg draws attention to a barrier that many primary care clinicians face when caring for patients with opioid use disorders: the lack of formalized infrastructure to support practice integration.SUSTAIN offers targeted training and technical assist...

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Published inHealth Affairs Vol. 37; no. 4; p. 678
Main Authors Barash, David, Hunt, Jr, James W
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States The People to People Health Foundation, Inc., Project HOPE 01.04.2018
Subjects
Initiatives
Narcotics
Opioids
Primary care
Substance use disorder
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Summary:In her Narrative Matters essay (Dec 2017), Jessica Gregg draws attention to a barrier that many primary care clinicians face when caring for patients with opioid use disorders: the lack of formalized infrastructure to support practice integration.SUSTAIN offers targeted training and technical assistance to communityhealth centers, which increases providers' capacity by integrating care for patients with opioid use disorders into their practices.
ISSN:0278-2715
1544-5208
DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.2018.0111