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Pain and Addiction in Specialty and Primary Care: The Bookends of a Crisis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Joseph R. Schottenfeld ,
Seth A. Waldman ,
Abbe R. Gluck  and
Daniel G. Tobin
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Specialists and primary care physicians play an integral role in treating the twin epidemics of pain and addiction. But inadequate access to specialists causes much of the treatment burden to fall on primary physicians. This article chronicles the differences between treatment contexts for both pain and addiction — in the specialty and primary care contexts — and derives a series of reforms that would empower primary care physicians and better leverage specialists.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 46 , Issue 2: Law and the Opioid Crisis: An Inter-Disciplinary Examination , Summer 2018 , pp. 220 - 237
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2018

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