Addressing Opioid Use Disorder in the LGBTQ Community
<p>A <a href="https://www.lgbthealtheducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/OpioidUseAmongLGBTQPopulations.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">report</a> released by the National LGBT Health Education Center focuses on the reasons that members of this community are at higher risk and ways to address this major disparity. It notes that this higher prevalence of substance use disorders, including opioid use disorder, can be understood through a minority stress model. Minority stress, the everyday discrimination and marginalization that can impact an individual’s coping strategies and psychological processes, may lead some members of the LGBTQ community to turn to opioids and other substances to provide relief, and this behavioral coping strategy may then in turn impact mental and physical health outcomes.</p>
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