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In-hospital Substance Use Policies: An Opportunity to Advance Equity, Reduce Stigma, and Offer Evidence-based Addiction Care
- Source :
- Journal of addiction medicine, vol 17, iss 1
- Publication Year :
- 2023
- Publisher :
- eScholarship, University of California, 2023.
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Abstract
- In-hospital substance use is common among patients with addiction because of undertreated withdrawal, undertreated pain, negative feelings, and stigma. Health care system responses to in-hospital substance use often perpetuate stigma and criminalization of people with addiction, long etched into our culture by the racist War on Drugs. In this commentary, we describe how our hospital convened an interprofessional workgroup to revise our in-hospital substance use policy. Our updated policy recommends health care workers respond to substance use concerns by offering patients adequate pain control, evidence-based addiction treatment, and supportive services instead of punitive responses. We provide best-practice recommendations for in-hospital substance use policies.
- Subjects :
- Substance-Related Disorders
Social Stigma
Pain
8.1 Organisation and delivery of services
and research governance
8.3 Policy
Substance Misuse
equity
Clinical Research
Humans
Addictive
Pharmacology (medical)
Behavior
substance use disorder
Pain Research
hospital policy
Substance Abuse
opioid use disorder
Health Services
ethics
Hospitals
Brain Disorders
Psychiatry and Mental health
Policy
Good Health and Well Being
Public Health and Health Services
addiction consult
Chronic Pain
acute care
Drug Abuse (NIDA only)
Health and social care services research
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of addiction medicine, vol 17, iss 1
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d740dcc9939d8bd6af443b98367891eb