VIDEO: Addiction-treatment workforce too small to cope with demand

WASHINGTON – “No one would say the reversal of the medical effects of [illicit drug use] is ‘treatment,’ ” says Dr. Mark S. Gold, an addiction specialist in the department of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis. That’s only the beginning, he says. After patients with drug addictions are stabilized, then begins the complicated and lengthy task of treatment. Yet, there is a coming shortage of medical personnel qualified to offer addiction treatment, says Dr. Gold, who cites that – in the next decade – the addiction-treatment workforce will be 10 times too small to meet the demand. In this video, recorded at the Summit in Neurology & Psychiatry held by the Global Academy for Medical Education, Dr. Gold discusses ways that primary care physicians and others can help. The Global Academy and this news organization are owned by the same company.

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WASHINGTON – “No one would say the reversal of the medical effects of [illicit drug use] is ‘treatment,’ ” says Dr. Mark S. Gold, an addiction specialist in the department of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis. That’s only the beginning, he says. After patients with drug addictions are stabilized, then begins the complicated and lengthy task of treatment. Yet, there is a coming shortage of medical personnel qualified to offer addiction treatment, says Dr. Gold, who cites that – in the next decade – the addiction-treatment workforce will be 10 times too small to meet the demand. In this video, recorded at the Summit in Neurology & Psychiatry held by the Global Academy for Medical Education, Dr. Gold discusses ways that primary care physicians and others can help. The Global Academy and this news organization are owned by the same company.

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WASHINGTON – “No one would say the reversal of the medical effects of [illicit drug use] is ‘treatment,’ ” says Dr. Mark S. Gold, an addiction specialist in the department of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis. That’s only the beginning, he says. After patients with drug addictions are stabilized, then begins the complicated and lengthy task of treatment. Yet, there is a coming shortage of medical personnel qualified to offer addiction treatment, says Dr. Gold, who cites that – in the next decade – the addiction-treatment workforce will be 10 times too small to meet the demand. In this video, recorded at the Summit in Neurology & Psychiatry held by the Global Academy for Medical Education, Dr. Gold discusses ways that primary care physicians and others can help. The Global Academy and this news organization are owned by the same company.

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