Where We Stand
Section: Substance Use Disorder
Policy: Substance Abuse

Substance Abuse

The OMA aligns its position on Substance Abuse (SA) with the 21 Objectives and Topics contained in Healthy People 2020 on this topic: www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/objectiveslist.aspx?topicId=40

SA-1   Reduce the proportion of adolescents who report that they rode, during the previous 30 days, with a driver who had been drinking alcohol

SA-2  Increase the proportion of adolescents never using substances

SA-3  Increase the proportion of adolescents who disapprove of substance abuse

SA-4   Increase the proportion of adolescents who perceive great risk associated with substance abuse

SA-5   (Developmental) Increase the number of drug, driving while impaired (DWI), and other specialty courts in the United States

SA-6  Increase the number of States with mandatory ignition interlock laws for first and repeat impaired driving offenders in the United States

SA-7  Increase the number of admissions to substance abuse treatment for injection drug use

SA-8   Increase the proportion of persons who need alcohol and/or illicit drug treatment who received specialty treatment for abuse or dependence in the past year

SA-9   (Developmental) Increase the proportion of persons who are referred for follow-up care for alcohol problems, drug problems after diagnosis, or treatment for one of these conditions in a hospital emergency department

SA-10  Increase the number of Level I and Level II trauma centers and primary care settings that implement evidence-based alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention (SBI)

SA-11  Reduce cirrhosis deaths

SA-12  Reduce drug-induced deaths

SA-13  Reduce past-month use of illicit substances

SA-14  Reduce the proportion of persons engaging in binge drinking of alcoholic beverages

SA-15  Reduce the proportion of adults who drank excessively in the previous 30 days

SA-16  Reduce average annual alcohol consumption

SA-17  Decrease the rate of alcohol-impaired driving (.08+ blood alcohol content [BAC]) fatalities

SA-18  Reduce steroid use among adolescents

SA-19  Reduce the past-year nonmedical use of prescription drugs

SA-20  Decrease the number of deaths attributable to alcohol

SA-21  Reduce the proportion of adolescents who use inhalants

Marijuana-prescribing physicians should be current in their knowledge of marijuana prescribing standards and national and state rules and regulations. See http://public.health.oregon.gov/DiseasesConditions/ChronicDisease/MedicalMarijuanaProgram/Pages/legal.aspx#dojmemo; see also Oregon Medical Association’s Medical-Legal Handbook, updated each biennium to reflect changes in law.

Adopted at the annual House of Delegates, 1999.
Revised by the Board of Trustees, April 2013.

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