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Why do so many doctors and nurses avoid treating patients with addiction?
NPR • • health
Key Points:
- Approximately 250,000 people in the US die annually from illnesses related to alcohol and drug use, despite the availability of effective medical treatments for addiction.
- There is a notable gap in the prescription of these proven addiction treatments by doctors.
- The episode discussing this issue was produced by Liz Baker and Kathryn Fink, with audio engineering by Ted Mebane.
- Editing was done by Maureen Pao and Tinbete Ermyas, under the direction of Elena Moore and executive production by Courtney Dorning.
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