Primary healthcare approach to substance abuse management
Substance abuse is common amongst patients attending primary healthcare settings. Despite the substantial impact on one’s health, substance abuse is often underdiagnosed by primary care providers owing to a lack of training and time for screening. Self-reported screening tools are easy to administer...
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| description | Substance abuse is common amongst patients attending primary healthcare settings. Despite the substantial impact on one’s health, substance abuse is often underdiagnosed by primary care providers owing to a lack of training and time for screening. Self-reported screening tools are easy to administer and efficient to make a substance abuse diagnosis in primary care settings. Comorbid mental illness and intimate partner violence are common amongst patients presenting with substance abuse in primary care. An early diagnosis and a brief behavioural change counselling are effective in managing substance abuse before it develops into dependency. A brief motivational communication rather than a confrontation during substance abuse screening, counselling and treatment is important to achieve optimum patient outcomes. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-01cf43571bfe49ecaa725d55b51024272025-08-20T03:47:09ZengAOSISSouth African Family Practice2078-61902078-62042021-05-01631e1e410.4102/safp.v63i1.53074135Primary healthcare approach to substance abuse managementRamprakash Kaswa0Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health, Walter Sisulu University, MthathaSubstance abuse is common amongst patients attending primary healthcare settings. Despite the substantial impact on one’s health, substance abuse is often underdiagnosed by primary care providers owing to a lack of training and time for screening. Self-reported screening tools are easy to administer and efficient to make a substance abuse diagnosis in primary care settings. Comorbid mental illness and intimate partner violence are common amongst patients presenting with substance abuse in primary care. An early diagnosis and a brief behavioural change counselling are effective in managing substance abuse before it develops into dependency. A brief motivational communication rather than a confrontation during substance abuse screening, counselling and treatment is important to achieve optimum patient outcomes.https://safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj/article/view/5307substance abuseprimary healthcare settingscreening toolsbrief behavioural change counsellingco-morbidity |
| spellingShingle | Ramprakash Kaswa Primary healthcare approach to substance abuse management South African Family Practice substance abuse primary healthcare setting screening tools brief behavioural change counselling co-morbidity |
| title | Primary healthcare approach to substance abuse management |
| title_full | Primary healthcare approach to substance abuse management |
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| title_short | Primary healthcare approach to substance abuse management |
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| topic | substance abuse primary healthcare setting screening tools brief behavioural change counselling co-morbidity |
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