Table of Experts: Healthier together: What ’s next in medicine

Dr. David Stern: For us, the effort in addiction medicine or substance use disorder is important because there aren ’t a lot of physicians in this region who are trained in that. Our belief is, the real people who should care for patients who have substance use disorder are the primary care physicians. Those are the docs who have contact with the patients.  With children of high school and college age, 50 per cent report unhealthy or risky substance use, in the adult population about 2.5 percent…
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