ArticleFrontiers in public health2023
Service-level barriers to and facilitators of accessibility to treatment for problematic alcohol use: a scoping review.
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- Enhancing care in alcohol-associated liver disease through peer support for alcohol use disorder.Hepatology communications · 2026Review
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- Circumstances surrounding alcohol toxicity deaths and prior pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorder in Ontario, Canada.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2025Article
- Nationwide study of emergency care quality for patients with substance use disorders and dual diagnoses across three distinct patient populations.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Supporting primary care clinicians in caring for patients with alcohol use disorder: study protocol for Records for Alcohol Care Enhancement (RACE), a factorial four-arm randomized trial.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Services to treat problematic alcohol use (PAU) should be highly accessible to optimize treatment engagement. We conducted a scoping review to map characteristics of services for the treatment of PAU that have been reported in the literature to be barriers to or facilitators of access to treatment from the perspective of individuals with PAU. Methods: A protocol was developed Results: One-hundred-and-nine included studies reported an extensive array of unique service-level barriers that could act alone or together to prevent treatment accessibility. These included but were not limited to lack of an obvious entry point, complexity of the care pathway, high financial cost, unacceptably long wait times, lack of geographically accessible treatment, inconvenient appointment hours, poor cultural/demographic sensitivity, lack of anonymity/privacy, lack of services to treat concurrent PAU and mental health problems. Discussion: Barriers generally aligned with recent reviews of the substance use disorder literature. Ranking of barriers may be explored in a future discrete choice experiment of PAU service users. The rich qualitative findings of this review may support the design of new or modification of existing services for people with PAU to improve accessibility. Systematic Review Registration: Open Science Framework doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/S849R.
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