As opioids surge, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends for the first time that primary care clinicians screen all adults for illicit drug use.
It’s time for doctors to start asking every patient, every time: Have you engaged in any illicit drug use?
That’s the new advice from a panel of public health experts who examined whether a primary care physician’s time is well spent — and whether patients’ interests are served — by routine screening for drug abuse.recommends that all U.S. adults be screened for illicit drug use as long as their doctors can do so accurately and, when abuse is detected, offer their patients effective treatment or refer them to someone who can.
Questions about drug use should not only cover the possibility that a patient is taking illegal street drugs like cocaine or heroin, the task force said.
The task force has long advised doctors to query American adults — and in some cases adolescents — about their drinking and smoking habits. If the new recommendation is adopted, drug abuse would join the list of risky behaviors to be diagnosed and often treated by primary care doctors. At a time when addiction has become a leading cause of disability in the U.S. and drug poisonings have become the
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