Psychiatric News (7/14) reports a study found that “just 10% of mental health treatment facilities offer medications for alcohol use disorder (AUD),” and only about “40% of facilities that provide both mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services offer medications for AUD.” Researchers “compiled data on 6,572 mental health and SUD facilities that provided outpatient care and responded to the 2023 National Substance Use and Mental Health Services Survey.” They observed that among the 2,640 facilities “specializing in mental health, just 262 (9.9%) reported offering medications for AUD, even though many such facilities offered other SUD services such as individual/group counseling or case management.” Among the 3,932 mental-health-plus-SUD facilities, “1,633 (41.5%) offered medications for AUD.” Researchers noted that “medications for AUD were more likely to be offered at facilities that accepted insurance, those that had integrated primary care, and those that prescribed antipsychotics.” The study was discussed in a research letter in JAMA Network Open  (SOURCE: APA Headlines)