Lo Celia C, Cheng Tyrone C
Department of Criminal Justice, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0320, USA.
J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2011 May;22(2):621-37. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2011.0054.
A secondary dataset, Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES), 2001-2003, was employed to examine racial/ethnic differences in access to specialty and non-specialty substance abuse treatment (compared with no access to treatment). The study found that non-Hispanic White Americans were (1) likelier than members of all racial/ethnic minority groups (other than Hispanics) to address substance abuse by accessing care through specialty addiction-treatment facilities, and were (2) also less likely to access substance abuse care through non-specialty facilities. Because non-specialty facilities may have staffs whose professional training does not target treating chronic, bio-psycho-social illness such as substance abuse, our results imply that treatment facilities deemed non-specialty may need to enhance staff training, in order to ensure individuals are properly screened for substance use conditions and are referred for or provided with effective counseling and medications as appropriate.
采用了一个二手数据集，即2001年至2003年的协作精神病流行病学调查（CPES），以研究在获得专科和非专科药物滥用治疗方面的种族/族裔差异（与未接受治疗相比）。研究发现，非西班牙裔美国白人：（1）比所有种族/族裔少数群体（不包括西班牙裔）更有可能通过专科成瘾治疗机构获得护理来解决药物滥用问题；（2）通过非专科机构获得药物滥用护理的可能性也较小。由于非专科机构的工作人员可能没有针对治疗慢性生物心理社会疾病（如药物滥用）的专业培训，我们的研究结果表明，被视为非专科的治疗机构可能需要加强工作人员培训，以确保对个人的药物使用情况进行适当筛查，并根据情况转介或提供有效的咨询和药物治疗。
