Jayme Congdon, a pediatrician and professor at UC San Francisco, said that there鈥檚 almost no overlap between pediatric providers and providers trained to treat opioid addiction.
A 2024 conducted by a number of researchers from both Yale and Oregon Health & Science University found that there鈥檚 also a shortage nationwide of treatment for young people.
鈥淚t really whittles down to almost no availability of residential treatment for minors who need that inpatient at least to start their treatment,鈥� Cogdon said.
When the study was conducted, there were no open beds in California facilities that both took Medicaid and offered buprenorphine, which supports as a treatment for opioid addiction. And a found that non-medication based treatments could be worse than no treatment at all.
There are limited bills still in play in the California Legislature aimed at expanding treatment. would allow minors 16 and older to receive medical treatment for opioid addiction without a parent鈥檚 consent.
The say that teen overdose deaths are on the rise, even though teen drug use is declining.
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