Mental Health Services and Opioid Use and Dependence: A Non-Sequitur?

• By: Lloyd I. Sederer, MD Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
• January 1st, 2020
• buprenorphine, harm reduction, medication-assisted treatment, mental health, naloxone, opioid epidemic, opioid use disorder, substance use intervention
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What does mental health have to do with mitigating the opioid epidemic? Isn’t it a problem for substance disorder programs, or addiction doctors? Well not really, if you consider the rates of opioid use and opioid use disorder (OUD) in patients seen in the community-based, non-profits in NYS...