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

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Title
Human Trafficking, Mental Illness, and Addiction: Avoiding Diagnostic Overshadowing
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The AMA Journal of Ethic, January 2017
DOI 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.1.ecas3-1701
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Hanni Stoklosa, Marti MacGibbon, Joseph Stoklosa

Abstract

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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Country Count As %
Unknown 67 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 16%
Student > Bachelor 10 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Researcher 5 7%
Other 12 18%
Unknown 12 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 22 33%
Social Sciences 9 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 10%
Psychology 7 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 14 21%