Article Commentary: Underutilization of Medications to Treat Opioid Use Disorder: What Role Does Stigma Play?

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العنوان: Article Commentary: Underutilization of Medications to Treat Opioid Use Disorder: What Role Does Stigma Play?
المؤلفون: Michelle L. Nolan, Bennett Allen, Denise Paone
المصدر: Substance Abuse. 40:459-465
بيانات النشر: SAGE Publications, 2019.
سنة النشر: 2019
مصطلحات موضوعية: medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Public health, Medicine (miscellaneous), Stigma (botany), Opioid use disorder, Opioid overdose, medicine.disease, Psychiatry and Mental health, medicine, Effective treatment, Psychiatry, business, Health policy, Methadone, medicine.drug, Buprenorphine
الوصف: There is consensus in the scientific literature that the opioid agonist medications methadone and buprenorphine are the most effective treatments for opioid use disorder. Despite increasing opioid overdose deaths in the United States, these medications remain substantially underutilized. For no other medical conditions for which an effective treatment exists is that treatment used so infrequently. In this commentary, we discuss the potential role of stigma in the underutilization of these opioid agonist medications for addiction treatment. We outline stigma toward medications for addiction treatment and suggest that structural and policy barriers to methadone and buprenorphine may contribute to this stigma. We offer pragmatic public health solutions to reduce stigma and expand access to these effective treatments.
تدمد: 1547-0164
0889-7077
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::a029c5c822b0a756e7ca97420191c692
https://doi.org/10.1080/08897077.2019.1640833
حقوق: CLOSED
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi...........a029c5c822b0a756e7ca97420191c692
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE