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Substance use disorders are common among patients in primary care settings. However, many physicians underdiagnose substance dependence. They do so for a variety of reasons. They may feel that substance dependence is a weakness rather than a disease, or they may believe that addicts differ in appearance from other patients. Patients, family members, and personal physicians frequently deny the existence of a problem. Some physicians are reluctant to make the diagnosis of a disorder they don’t know how to treat.

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  1. East Central HealthNet Family Medicine Residency Program, Meridian, Mississippi, USA

    H. Thomas Milhorn MD, PhD (Director, Didactics Section, Formerly Professor of Family Medicine, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior)

  2. University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, Mississippi, USA

    H. Thomas Milhorn MD, PhD (Director, Didactics Section, Formerly Professor of Family Medicine, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior)

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Milhorn, H.T. (2018). Diagnosis. In: Substance Use Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63040-3_14

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