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Article: What we know about ourselves: changing attitudes about treating patients with substance use disorders.(Editorial)
- Article from:
- Southern Medical Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Patients with substance use disorders (SUD) are prevalent in most schools, hospitals, emergency departments, and in the criminal justice system. (1) Society has come more and more to view substance abuse and dependence as an illness and to implement programs that help people recover and lead productive lives. Treatment of SUD has many shortcomings including limited evidence-based practice parameters (2) and the typical relapsing and remitting course of this condition.
Lindberg et al (3) discusses the changing attitude of physicians toward caring for patients with substance abuse disorders from the beginning of their training to the time they finish their ...