Most areas of the U.S. lack facilities that offer medically managed withdrawal for patients under 18.
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University posed as an aunt or uncle of a teen who recently overdosed. The researchers called every U.S. teen addiction treatment facility they could find to ask if their niece or nephew could go there to detox and whether the facility offered medications to help with the process.
King said multiple locations responded that they couldn’t think of a single place in their state where kids could go to detox.The American Society of Addiction Medicine is revising its standards for treating opioid use disorder in adults and children .
Gomez-Luna said the addiction medicine group is also concerned there are too few facilities for teens and a lack of specialized personnel to treat them., chief of adolescent and young adult medicine at Mass General for Children and Harvard Medical School, said there are fewer facilities for adolescents in part because many teens are never identified as needing help or connected to care, despite the growing number of overdoses.
“Our pediatric workforce has not traditionally received strong training in the management of addiction,” Hadland said. “When patients do go to general pediatric hospital settings, it’s possible that there isn’t someone there who has the expertise needed to manage that patient’s care.” “All of these conditions have been on the rise in the wake of covid, alongside the rise in overdoses that we’re seeing,” Hadland said. “Part of the charge of our pediatric workforce right now is not just to address addiction, but also to tackle the underlying mental health conditions that young people are working through.”
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