Here's a look at the addiction treatment centers across Massachusetts that currently offer primary care treatment to their patients suffering from mental and behavioral health disorders. As you can see, a scarce amount of treatment centers provide medical services in coordination with substance abuse treatment. When you consider the statistic that in Massachusetts alone an estimated 196,000 people have an illicit drug addiction or drug abuse problem over one year period, as supported by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, it is outrageous to see such neglect from the medical community.
The fact of the matter is that primary care physicians do not traditional screen for substance abuse disorders. If there is a screening test at all it is often limited to a small questionnaire intake form, which is unlikely to yield accurate results. A primary care physician plays a vital role in assisting those patients with their addiction problems while treating them for any other health care disorders they might have. The locations showed on this map are not even a quarter of the treatment facilities in Massachusetts. This emphasizes the lack of primary care integration.
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