Primary Care at the Intersection of Lifestyle Interventions and Unhealthy Substance Use.

ABSTRACT: Primary care physicians are well-positioned to integrate lifestyle interventions into the management of patients with unhealthy substance use, who may also have mental and physical chronic health comorbidities. However, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the U.S.'s poor state of health, revealing that its current approach to chronic disease management is neither effective nor sustainable. Today's full spectrum comprehensive care model requires an expanded toolkit. Lifestyle interventions broaden current treatment approaches and may enhance Addiction Medicine care. Primary care providers have the potential to have the greatest impact on unhealthy substance use care because they are experts in chronic disease management and their frontline accessibility minimizes healthcare barriers. Individu

SUBMITTER: Nakaishi L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10328212 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature