- Title
- Primary healthcare approach to substance abuse management
- Creator
- Kaswa, Ramprakash
- 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. Keywords: substance abuse; primary healthcare setting; screening tools; brief behavioural change counselling; co-morbidity
- Date
- 2021
- Subject
- Substance abuse Diseases Primary health care Article
- Type
- text, article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/7259
- Identifier
- vital:53104
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.4102/safp.v63i1.5307"
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (4 leaves), pdf
- Publisher
- AOSIS
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Family Practice, Kaswa R. Primary healthcare approach to substance abuse management. S Afr Fam Pract. 2021;63(1), a5307. https://doi.org/10.4102/safp.v63i1.5307, South African Family Practice volume 63 number 1 p.1 May 2021 2078-6204
- Rights
- © 2021. The Authors, . This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License
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