Citation

Knopf A. Brown Univ. Child Adolesc. Behav. Lett. 2017; 33(1): 3-4.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/cbl.30184

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

"Treatment on demand" is the watch call for helping young people who are misusing prescription opioids. But few of these young people do receive treatment, partly due to inability to pay, according to new research. Most alarmingly, a history of overdose was also correlated with an inability to access treatment.

For the study, researchers looked at the correlates of treatment access for prescription opioid misuse among young adults in Rhode Island, where the opioid epidemic -- both prescription and heroin and illicit fentanyl -- has hit hard in terms of overdoses...

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