What strategies would you suggest to reduce patient-directed discharges in hospitalized patients with substance use disorder?

Hello,

This is an interesting question and one that our team has a lot of experience with.

I think it is, first and foremost, important to remember that the hospital is a hard place to be for anyone, and especially for people with substance use disorder. They are used to being mistreated in the hosp...

This is a great question and one that is often seen at my hospital. Patients with SUD are treated poorly, even by well-meaning staff and clinicians, right away. Withdrawal is seen as "seeking" and sometimes individuals want to fix that problem right away. The reality is that no individual will ever ...

I agree with Dr. @Dr. First Last. The most actionable takeaway from Buresh et al., PMID 41372665 is that multidisciplinary addiction consultation appears to matter more than physician consultation alone. The strongest reduction came when peer recovery supporters and behavioral health professionals a...