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    Attitudes of primary care physicians toward prescribing buprenorphine: a narrative review

    The opioid epidemic is a major public health issue associated with significant overdose deaths. Effective treatments exist, such as the medication buprenorphine, but are not widely available. This narrative re...

    Dexter L. Louie, Mehret T. Assefa, Mark P. McGovern in BMC Family Practice (2019)

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    Implementing integrated services in routine behavioral health care: primary outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial

    An estimated 8.2 million adults in the United States live with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Although the benefits of integrated treatment services for persons with co-occurring disor...

    Mehret T. Assefa, James H. Ford II, Eric Osborne in BMC Health Services Research (2019)

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    Using NIATx strategies to implement integrated services in routine care: a study protocol

    Access to integrated services for individuals with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders is a long-standing public health issue. Receiving integrated treatment services are both more effective...

    James H. Ford II, Eric L Osborne, Mehret T. Assefa in BMC Health Services Research (2018)

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    “We would never forget who we are”: resettlement, cultural negotiation, and family relationships among Somali Bantu refugees

    Somali refugees are resettling in large numbers in the US, but little is known about the Somali Bantu, an ethnic minority within this population. Refugee youth mental health is linked to the functioning of the...

    Rochelle L. Frounfelker, Mehret T. Assefa in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (2017)