As N.H.’s Opioid Crisis Grows, Primary-Care Doctors Are Slow to Treat Addiction – NHPR

Read article -  Article features Jeffrey DeFlavio, Geisel '14, about research he conducted as a medical student at Geisel that examined why more doctors don’t treat substance abuse. He took a survey of family physicians in New Hampshire and Vermont and found that, while a majority of the respondents routinely saw opioid-addicted patients, there were barriers. "What was interesting was that they overwhelmingly felt obligated to treat addiction," says DeFlavio. "But they said they didn't know how to treat it, their staff didn't want to treat it and it wasn't paying enough to do it." DeFlavio founded a group of innovative addiction clinics that serve patients in several states.