Citation

Wood SP. AMA J. Ethics 2018; 20(12): E1212-1216.

Affiliation

An acute care nurse practitioner practicing emergency medicine and a fellow in bioethics at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also a consultant for the Woburn Police Department, the Southern Middlesex Regional Drug Task Force, and the New England Coalition Against Trafficking; the chair of the Winchester Hospital Substance Use Task Force; and the co-chair of the Southern Middlesex County Mental Health Working Group; and a lecturer at Northeastern University in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/amajethics.2018.1212

PMID

30585586

Abstract

This first-person narrative describes some of the barriers to caring well for patients at the intersection of human trafficking and substance use disorder. I canvass some of the ethical considerations regarding these patients' autonomy and call for establishing and using evidence-based practice to manage these complex scenarios.

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