Trafficked

Stephen P Wood

doi:10.1001/amajethics.2018.1212

Trafficked

AMA J Ethics. 2018 Dec 1;20(12):E1212-1216. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.1212.

Author

Stephen P Wood¹

Affiliation

¹ An acute care nurse practitioner practicing emergency medicine and a fellow in bioethics at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also a consultant for the Woburn Police Department, the Southern Middlesex Regional Drug Task Force, and the New England Coalition Against Trafficking; the chair of the Winchester Hospital Substance Use Task Force; and the co-chair of the Southern Middlesex County Mental Health Working Group; and a lecturer at Northeastern University in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences.

PMID: 30585586
DOI: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.1212

Abstract

This first-person narrative describes some of the barriers to caring well for patients at the intersection of human trafficking and substance use disorder. I canvass some of the ethical considerations regarding these patients' autonomy and call for establishing and using evidence-based practice to manage these complex scenarios.

Publication types

Case Reports
Personal Narrative

MeSH terms

Adult
Evidence-Based Nursing / ethics*
Female
Human Trafficking / ethics*
Human Trafficking / psychology*
Humans
Nurse-Patient Relations
Nursing Staff, Hospital / psychology
Personal Autonomy*
Substance-Related Disorders / nursing*
Substance-Related Disorders / psychology*
Survivors / psychology*
United States
Young Adult