Human Trafficking, Mental Illness, and Addiction: Avoiding Diagnostic Overshadowing.

نویسندگان

  • Hanni Stoklosa
  • Marti MacGibbon
  • Joseph Stoklosa
چکیده

This article reviews an emergency department-based clinical vignette of a trafficked patient with co-occurring pregnancy-related, mental health, and substance use disorder issues. The authors, including a survivor of human trafficking, draw on their backgrounds in addiction care, human trafficking, emergency medicine, and psychiatry to review the literature on relevant general health and mental health consequences of trafficking and propose an approach to the clinical complexities this case presents. In their discussion, the authors explicate the deleterious role of implicit bias and diagnostic overshadowing in trafficked patients with co-occurring addiction and mental illness. Finally, the authors propose a trauma-informed, multidisciplinary response to potentially trafficked patients.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • AMA journal of ethics

دوره 19 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017