Treatments by type of care network and gender
psychiatric comorbidity, SUDs, comorbidity
DISORDER
Our study shows how treatments for OMDs are very common in addiction treatment networks, reflecting the important awareness within them of psychiatric comorbidity and the need to treat it. It is, however, remarkable that, despite their high prevalence, the treatment of SUDs in patients treated in mental health networks is lower than might be expected (Mangrum et al. Regarding the gender approach in the treatment of comorbidity, it has been described that there are gender differences in the access to treatment resources specialized between men and women, due to several factors, such as social stigma and lack of specialized resources (Miquel et al. In our research, although the prevalence of opioid use disorder is significantly lower among women, they receive proportionally more treatment with antagonists than with agonists compared to men (4.7/11.5% vs. 2.7/20.4%), which may show a bias regarding inclusion in demonstrated useful programs that are less accepting women (Miquel et al. 